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of common fait, two of faltpetre, and one part 

 of fal armoniac, in order to keep the feeds cool, 

 and preferve their vegetative power (»). 



The following methods, which are attended 

 with lefs trouble, have been alfo found fuc- 

 cefsful. 



d. Seeds and nuts in their pods, may be en- 

 clofed in linen or writing paper, and put into 

 canifters, earthern jars, fnuff boxes or glafs 

 bottles ; the interfaces between the parcels of 

 feeds mould be filled with whole rice, millet, 

 panic, wheat bran, or ground Indian corn 

 well dried. To prevent any injury from miedks, 

 a little camphor, fulphur or tobacco fhouid be 

 put into the top of each canifler or veffel, and 

 their covers well fecured, to exclude the .admif- 

 fion of the external air. 



e. The feeds well dried may be put. into a box, 

 not made too clofe, upon alternate layers of 

 mofs, in fuch a manner as to admit the feeds to 

 vegetate, or moot their fmall tendrils into the 

 mofs. In the voyage, the box may be hung up 

 at the roof of the cabin ; and when the fhip is 

 arrived at the place of her deflination, the feeds 

 fhouid be put into pots of mold, with a little of 

 the mofs alio about them, on which they had lain. 



Seeds preferved after this manner, and alfo 

 in the preceding (d), which are procured in the 



[n) A method of preferving feeds fimilar to this, was 

 firft propofed by the celebrated Linnaras, which he thus re- 

 lates in a letter I had the honor of receiving from him. 

 " Lagenula vitrea repleatur feminibus in Indiis nuper Ieclis 

 et flccioribus, dein fubere optime claudatur. Ha?c indetur 

 Lagena? multo capacicri, et repleatur falibus variis mixtis, 

 ita ut fale undique lateribus, fci licet, fundo et orificio in- 

 carcetur interio Lagenula. Salibus mixtis oritur frigus 

 majus, ne a caiore climatis exiiccentur femina." 



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