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their growing. Thofe feeds which I have feen brought home in 
this manner, had fnot out roots, owing; to the heat of the climates 
they had palled through, and the confined moifture; and though 
not above twenty out of two hundred in the canifter fucceeded, yet 
thefe are thought a great acquifition. Perhaps there would be lefs 
danger of fomany of them putrefying, if each capfule with its feeds 
was wrapped up tight in a feparate piece of paper, and afterwards 
clofely packed in the canifter as before-mentioned. We fee how 
long oranges, lemons, and other fruit wrapped up fingly in papers, 
and put into dole packages, will continue found by the papers ab- 
forbing the moifture that mull exfude from them, and which pre- 
vents their heating and putrefying. 
Tea-feeds, put up in this manner, require lefs trouble than thofe 
that are rolled up fingly, and afterwards immerfed in melted wax. 
Experience will determine which is the bell method. When the 
fhip arrives at St. Helena, they may be ealily examined to fee in 
what ftate they are, by cutting fome of them open ; and if they 
are found, fome of them fhould be fbwn immediately in cafes or 
tubs of frefh earth, well fecured from rats, and the vacancy made 
in the canifter immediately filled up, and fluffed very clofe with 
the fame fort of paper, to prevent the air getting to the reft, ' which 
would loon fpoil them. Thefe that are thus put into earth fhould 
have but little water given to them till they pafs the tropic of Can- 
cer ; otherwife they will fpire up very weak, from fhe great heat, 
and want of a free circulation of good air. 
It might be proper, after the fhip has pafled the tropic of Can- 
cer, near the latitude of 30 degrees North, to fow fome more feeds 
in the fame boxes, by which experiment we may judge the better 
of the propereft place to low the feeds at fea. It has been prac- 
tifed by many, to fow the feeds immediately on leaving China ; 
but this is rarely attended with fuccefs, particularly on account of 
the bad weather too often met with in coming round the Cape of 
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