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method to our feedfmen, in fending feeds from hence to thofe 
warm climates. 
The fmalleft feeds being very liable to lofe their vegetative 
power by long voyages through warm climates, it may be worth 
while to try the following experiment upon fuch kinds as we 
know for certain are found. Dip feme fquare pieces of cotton 
cloth in melted wax, and while it is foft and almoft cold, ftrew 
the furface of each piece over with each fort of fmall feed, then 
roll them up tight, and inclofe each roll in fome foft bees-wax, 
wrapping up each of them in a piece of paper, with the name of 
the feed on it; thefc may be either furrounded as before withfalts, 
or packed without the falts in a box, as is moft convenient. 
There are many feeds, which we receive both from the Weft- 
Indies and the fouthern parts of our North -American colonies, as 
South-Carolina, Georgia, &c. which the gardeners find very difficult 
to raife here, unlefs the following method is purfued. Divide a 
box, according to your quantity and forts of feeds, into feveral 
fquare partitions ; then mix the feeds with loamy earth and cut 
mofs, and put each fort into its feparate cell, filling it up to the 
top: the earth and mofs muft be rather inclining to dry than wet;: 
then nail the lid down very clofe on your box, keeping it in an 
airy fituation. If the voyage does not exceed two months, they 
will arrive in good order in the fpring; and, though many of them 
may begin to germinate, yet, if they are fown direflly, they will 
fucceed much better than thofe that are brought over in papers, as 
is well known to our moft curious gardeners. Seeds of the nutmeg- 
tree from Tobago, the cinnamon-tree, the cacao or chocolate-nut, 
and Avocado pear, muft be brought in. this manner. Seeds of all 
the forts of magnolias, ftewartias, chionanthus, and many others 
from South-Carolina, will fucceed better this way, than any other 
method we yet know. 
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