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To this I mu ft add a method that promifes fuccefs for bringing 
<5ver plants from the Weft-Indies, and the fouthern parts of North- 
America, particularly Weft-Florida, the voyage from hence being 
longer than from the Weft-Indies, and more attention is required 
to keep the plants in health, than from any other parts of our 
North-American fettlements : but as there is a good deal of 
difference in the climates of thefe places, it will be neceflary to 
obferve, that plants from the Weft-Indies fhould be put on 
board in the latter-end of Spring, fo as to arrive here in warm 
weather, otherwife they will be deftroyed by the cold of this lati- 
tude; and the ever-greens, which are the moft curious from Weft- 
Florida, muft be fent in the winter months, while their juices are 
inactive, fo as to arrive here before the heats come on. If the 
plants fent from thele countries were planted in pots or boxes, 
and kept there a year, they might be brought over with very 
little hazard ; or even if they were firft tranlplanted from the 
woods into a garden, till they had formed roots, they might be 
fent with much more fafety. 
The ftze of the boxes that will be moft convenient for flowing 
them on board merchant-fhips, where there is very little room to 
fpare, fhould be three feet long, fifteen inches broad, and from 
eighteen inches to two feet deep, according to the ftze of the 
young trees; but the fmalleft will be moft likely to fucceed, pro- 
vided they are well rooted. There muft be a narrow ledge nailed 
all round the inlide of the box, within fix inches of the bottom, 
to fallen laths or packthread to form a kind of lattice-work, by 
which the plants may be the better fecured in their places. If the 
plants are packed up juft before the fhip fails, it will be fo much 
the better. 
When they are dug up, care muft be taken to preferve as much 
earth as can be about their roots ; and if it fhould fall oft', it muft 
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