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the kernels: if then fame of the ripe ft kernels were taken out of 
theftones cautioufly, without bruifmg them, and preferved in the 
fame manner as the oak acorns, it would be an experiment worth 
trying, in order to obtain thismoft valuable tree, efpecially if fome 
of thefe kernels fo preferved were taken out of the wax at St. 
Helena, and fown in boxes of frefh earth. The fame might be 
practifed with fuccefs on the tea-feeds, as fome of my friends, who 
have taken this hint, have experienced very lately. 
The fecond method that has been tried with fuccefs is, by pro- 
curing the tea-feeds in their pods or capfules, when they are 
brought down frefh from the tea-country at the latter-end of the 
year, to Canton, at the time that ourEaft-lndia fhips are preparing 
to depart for Europe. The feeds then in their pods are to be put 
into pound or half-pound canifters made of tin and tutenague 
with a double rim to the top: the infide of the canifter fhould be 
firft lined with lilk paper, or the paper commonly ufed in China, 
and the feeds prefted down clofe, but not fo as to be bruifed. When 
the canifter is near full to the neck, fome more of the fame paper 
mtfft be fluffed in very clofe, till it is full to the top, and then the 
double-rimmed cover fhould be put on very tight. Care muft be 
taken that the feeds are not too moift when they are put into the 
canifter, and that they are found and in good order. The canifter then is 
to be kept in an airy cool place. If the fhip arrives early in England, 
I mean in June or the beginning of July, they may be fown with 
fuccefs; the fooner it is done, the better chance we fhall have of 
* Whether there is any particular antifeptic quality or power of redding putrefaction in 
the metallic parts of thefe kind of canifters, 1 will not pretend to determine; but it is molt 
certain, that there are fulphureous mineral fleams, very perceivable to perfons of a nice fenfe 
of fmelling, that are continually Rowing from almoft all metallic fubftances, efpecially in hot 
weather; which fleams being confined, may probably refill putrefaction, and deflroy infeCts 
in vegetable bodies ; and perhaps thefe may rather promote than impair their vegetative 
powers, as I lhall fhew hereafter in an inftance of the ufe-of common fulphui applied for this 
purpofe ; for mod of the tea-feeds had pufliecl Forth roots in the canifter. 
their 
