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to keep them from heating ; and that could scarcely occur 

 if the branches or intervening substance were so disposed 

 as to prevent their leaves touching each other. 



Bulbs travel most securely if they are packed in paper 

 or canvas bags, they having been previously dried till all 

 the moisture in their outer coats is evaporated. Dry sand 

 is a good medium for placing them in, if opportunities 

 should not have occurred of giving them the necessary expo- 

 sure to the sun. But minute bulbs, such as those of Ixias, 

 Gladioluses, Oxalises, and others of a similar kind, only 

 require to be folded in separate little parcels without any 

 previous preparation. Terrestrial Orcliidece should be trans- 

 planted when in flower, and not when their roots are in a 

 state of rest. 



Among the mould in which plants are potted, it is very 

 desirable that any woody or bony seeds, or capsules, that may 

 have been procured should be buried ; or any of those seeds, 

 the juices of which become rancid soon after gathering, such 

 as those of Guttiferce, Magnoliacece, Sterculiacece, &c. Ca- 

 mellia seeds, which are not readily transported, if sown in 

 mould in China, will have become seedling plants before they 

 reach this country. Acorns and Walnuts may be conveyed 

 from hot countries much better in this way than in any other : 

 packed thus, we may some day expect to receive from China 

 plants of Quercus cornea of Loureiro ; which I may observe 

 is a species of Hickory. The plants of the rare and curious 

 Butter and Tallow tree of Sierra Leone, which have been 

 raised in the Society's Garden from seeds collected by Mr. 

 George Don, in the present year, are nearly all of them the 



