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Thereare many valuable feeds may be brought from the South of 
France, Italy and Turkey, particularly the rarer kinds of oaks, the 
Alkermesoak,the Velani oak, the gall-bearing oak, which ought to 
be preferved in bees-wax, as the voyage is often very long, and the 
Turkey fhips frequently detained on account of the quarantine. 
The feeds of many of the fmall fucculent fruits may be brought 
to England from very diftant parts, by preffing them together, 
fqueezing out their watery juices, and drying them in fmall cakes 
gradually, that they may become hard ; they may be then wrapt 
up in white writing paper, not fpongy, as this is apt to attrafl and 
retain moifbure : but I believe it will be found, that a covering of 
wax will be better than one of paper. 
The Alpine ftrawberry was firft fent to England in a letter from 
Turin to Henry Baker, Efq; F. R. S. by preffing the pulp with the 
feeds thin upon paper, and letting it dry before they were inclofed. 
The paper mulberry from China was brought hither about the year 
1754, much in the fame manner. Formerly, varieties of the Ar- 
butus, from the fouthern parts of France, were brought over in thin 
dried cakes ; and a few years ago the Arbutus Adrachne feeds were 
fent in the fame manner from Aleppo by the late Dr. Al. RuffeL 
Our mulberries, ftrawberries, and other fucculent fruits, may be 
conveyed to diftant parts by the fame method. The pulp, when 
dried, hardens like a varniffi, and keeps the feeds from the air (pro- 
vided they are kept dry), as the larger kinds are by bees-wax. 
Thefe hints may prompt us to try the larger fucculent fruits ; 
for inftance, the mangoes, lechees, and others of this kind : if their 
flefhy part, when they are very ripe, was brought to the confiftence 
of raiftns or dried figs, it would keep their kernels plump, and in 
this ftate they might be better preferved in wax, than by any other 
method yet known. The nutmegs in the fame manner mull not 
be diverted of their pericarpium before they are inclofed in wax. 
The marking nut, or anacardium orientale, ffiould be brought over 
with 
