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PRESERVING PLANTS AND SEEDS ON A SEA VOYAGE. 
A is a cask for sowing East India seeds, with the openings defended by wire, and 
a lid which can be opened and shut as circumstances may require. The wire will 
defend the plants from the depredations of rats^, or being plucked by any persons, 
is a box with West India and West Florida plants, shut down ; the broad black 
B 
bands at the ends and front are intended to show openings by which fresh air is 
admitted to the plants. These openings are too contracted to admit rats, and the 
lid may be securely locked. C shows the inside of tlie box, with the manner of 
securing the roots of West Florida and West India plants, surrounded with earth 
and moss, tied with pack-thread, and fastened cross and cross with laths or pack- 
