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Good Hope ; befide, the young plants are apt to grow too freely 
and {lender in their confinement, and therefore lefs able to bear the 
cold air when they arrive in this latitude. 
If by chance the tops of fuch plants as come up fhould be broken 
off by any accident, the earth and feeds fhould not be thrown away, 
for the remaining part of the item next to the feed will {hoot up 
afrefh, as I have experienced in the pot of oak acorns (that grew 
after they had been preferved a feafon in wax) ; fome of the tender 
young plants were by accident broke oft' fhort dole to the earth ; 
but before the fummer was over they grew up again, full as vigo- 
roufly as thofe that were not hurt. 
The following is a defcription of a proper-fized box to fow the 
feeds in, in the Eaft-Indies or on the voyage. It fhould be three- 
feet long, fifteen inches wide, and eighteen or twenty inches deep, 
or more, as it may be found convenient, with a proper cover of 
wire to fecure the feeds or young plants from vermin, and a lid 
with hinges to fhut down over the wire, as there may be occafion, 
and a handle at each end, to move the box eafier to and fro. The 
ends of the box near the top muff be bored full of holes, to let the 
crude vapours pafs oft that arife while the cover is obliged to be 
let down ; or a fmall valve or wooden {butter at each end to open 
outwards, of fix inches long and three broad; the openings to be 
defended with wire, to prevent the rats getting into the box. This 
hint is fufficient to {hew that air is abfolutely neceftary, and an- 
ingenious carpenter will eafily contrive fmall doors or openings all 
round for the health of the young plants. 
Or a calk, perhaps, may be made equally as convenient for this 
purpofe, as the cooper on board a {hip has always fpare calks 
more ready than boxes. The following is the proportion it fhould 
be of : two feet three inches high, two feet bung diameter, and 
one foot nine inches head diameter ; there fhould be a large opening 
at the top wired over, the wired part of which might be lifted 
up at pleafure, and a lid with hinges to cover it*, this may 
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