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with its apple or receptacle dried, adhering to it before it is in- 
clofed in wax. Of this valuable plant we are yet ignorant, even of 
its leaves and bloftoms, though very Baft-India fhip brings fome 
of the nuts, but none of them have yet been raifed in England, 
This is the tree fo much commended by Kaempfer, in his Amoeni- 
tates Exoticae, p. 793. for yielding the Siam varnifh of fo much 
confequence in China and Japan, for the firft layer of their varnilh, 
in all their curious lacquered ware. There is another fruit which 
I (hall recommend to be brought in wax from China; this is called 
by the Chinefe Unchee, or Um-Ky; it is defcribed by Doflor 
Solander, in the Philofophical Tranfaftions, vol, lii. p. 654. 
Feb. 20. where there is a very exaft figure of it, taken from fpe- 
cimens in the Britifh Mufeum, as they are preferved in feveral 
Hortus Siccus’s ; the volumes in which they are to be found are 
particularly enumerated by the DoTor, with an account of their 
great ufe in dying fcarlet: this fhrub may be cultivated in our 
American iflands. The pulpy part among the feeds gives, when 
put into warm water, a very lively yellow colour, which is much 
wanted among the dyers. This plant is now cultivated in our 
curious botanical gardens from cuttings, and is known by the 
name of the fingle Gardenia, or the fingle Cape Jafmine of Miller: 
It was raifed from feeds about ten years ago, brought from China 
by Thomas Fitzhugh, Efq; and is often found among the boxes 
of feeds lent from China, but not in a vegetating hate. Mr. 
Fitzhugh followed the Linnaean manner of bringing over feeds 
furrounded with fait, which he thinks a very good method. 
Our feedfmen are much diftrefled for a proper method to keep 
their feeds found, and in a ftate of vegetation, through long voyages. 
Complaints are made, that, when their feeds arrive in the 
Eaft-Indies, and often in the Weft-Indies, few of them grow ; 
but that moft of them are full of infedls, or, what they term 
weevilly. This feems to proceed from the damp and putrid heat 
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