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XVIII. Instructions for Packing living Plants in Foreign 

 Countries, especially within the Tropics ; and Directions 

 for their Treatment during the Voyage to Europe. By 

 Mr. John Lindley, F. L. S. $c. Assistant Secretary for 

 the Garden. 



Read November 5, 1822. 



The importation of plants from foreign countries has now 

 become an object of such great importance, not only to the 

 Society itself, but to a large portion of its Members, that 

 directions for preparing collections for their voyage hither, 

 are become absolutely indispensible. For it is an undoubted 

 fact, that a very considerable part of the losses continually 

 sustained by collectors, especially among plants sent from 

 China and the East Indies, are in a great measure to be 

 attributed to the insufficient manner in which the packages 

 were originally made up. This having been particularly 

 the case with many fine collections sent to the Society in the 

 course of the present year, my attention has necessarily been 

 directed strongly to the subject ; and as it is probable that 

 instructions published through the medium of the Society 

 will be more likely to remedy the evil than any given in a se- 

 parate form, I now beg to submit the following suggestions to 

 consideration. 



The insecure modes of packing plants abroad do not, of 

 course, arise from any indisposition on the part of those who 



