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It principally confifts in choofing only flich feeds as are per- 
fectly found and ripe. To prove this, we mu ft cut open fome of 
them to judge what lituation the reft may be in, taking care 
to lay afide any that are outwardly defective, or marked with 
the wounds of infefts. ' When a proper choice of them is 
made, they fhould be wiped extremely clean, to prevent any dirt 
or moifture being inclofed ; each feed then fhould be rolled up 
carefully in a coat of foft bees-wax half an inch thick: the deep 
yellow Englifh bees-wax is the beft. When you have covered 
the number you intend to inclofe, pour fome of this bees-wax 
melted into a chip-box of fix or feven inches long, four broad, 
and three deep, till it is above half full; and juft before it begins 
to harden, while it is yet fluid, put in the feeds you have rolled 
up in rows till the box is near full; then pour over them fome 
more wax while it is juft fluid, taking care when it is cold to flop 
all the cracks or chinks that may have proceeded from the fhrink- 
ing of the wax, with fome very foft wax ; then put on the cover 
of the box, and keep it in as cool and airy a place as you can. 
The method of inclofing tea-feeds flngly in wax, and bringing 
them over in that ftate, has beeen pradtifed for fome time; but few 
have fucceeded, owing to the thinnefs of the coat of wax, or 
putting paper fir ft round them, or inclofing them too moift. 
The ftones of mangoes have been covered in the fame manner, 
but moft of them have been pierced by infects through the wax, 
and of many of them that were not pierced, their kernels were 
black and hard; a plain proof they had been too dry before they 
were inclofed, and that thefe large ftones require as ftrong a 
covering of wax as the oak acorns, to prevent the air or infects 
coming to them. - * 
It appears from experiments made by curious perfons in the 
Ea ft -Indies, that mangoes will vegetate fooner • by fowing only 
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