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protect it ; and, to prevent this cover from being 

 loft or millaid, nai it to one fide, and fix loops 

 or hooks to the other, by which it may occafion- 

 ally be fattened down. 



The late f. Ellis, Efq. who took lingular pains 

 to promote the introduction of Exoticks, recom- 

 mends the conflruftion of a box and calk agree- 

 able topi. IV. fig. 1. 2. The iirft mews the in- 

 lide of the box, and the manner of fecuring the 

 roots of plants funounded with earth and mofs 

 tied with pack-thread, and fattened crofs and 

 crofs with laths or packthread to keep them 

 fteady. 



There muflbe a narrow ledge nailed all round 

 the infide of the box, within fix inches of the 

 bottom, to fallen laths or packthread, to form a 

 kind of lattice-work, in order to fecure the plants 

 in their places, as abovt mentioned. 



The cafk fig. 2. is convenient for fowing of 

 feeds, with the openings defended by v. ire ; and 

 as every fliip has fpare calks, one may be readily 

 formed for the conveyance of feeds in vegetation 

 or growing plants, agreeable to the annexed en- 

 graving. The following is the proportion it mould 

 be of ; two feet three inches high, two feet bung 

 diameter, and one foot nine inches head diameter ; 

 there mould be a large opening at the top wired 

 over, the wired part of which might be lifted up 

 at pleafure, and a lid with hingesto cover it ; this 

 may be either circular or fquare, as will be moft 

 convenient, the larger the better ; and on the up- 



f)er part of the fides there may be four or five 

 ittle openings wired, with doors to each, for the 

 fake of giving air all round upon fome occafions. 



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