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A FEW MORE REMARKS ON PRESERVING PLANTS 
AND SEEDS ON A SEA VOYAGE. 
In addition to what has been stated. Vol. 1^ p. 260, and Vol. 2, p. 90, a few 
more remarks may be made. To ensure success, great care is requisite, not only to 
select good plants, but to remove them properly and, if possible, allow them to 
grow ill their boxes for some months previous to being shipped. 
A correspondent of ours having had occasion to send plants to the West Indies, 
has hitherto been very successful. The method he recommends is to get a common 
riour barrel, with the top out. The pots of plants are firmly fixed at the bottom, by 
a bar being placed across the top of the pots. A few bars of wood are put across 
the upper end of the barrel, and a piece of tarpaulin is nailed to the side of the 
barrel, like a flap, to cover the top in bad weather ; also, a few holes are bored with 
a large augre in the sides, to prevent the possibility of the plants being entirely 
secluded from air. 
In sending plants from the East India Company's garden, Calcutta, tlie kind of 
chests and boxes used resemble the following; : — 
