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or two of dried mofs, which he may have from the eminent 
feedfmen, or nurferymen about London. It will take up very 
little room on board a (hip, for it may ferve to pack bottles. 
If the mofs is collected while it is green, and in a growing 
flate, and then well dried, no vegetable of that tender texture 
refills putrefaction fo much, nor does any hold moillure fo 
long without decaying ; for which reafon, it is ufed with great 
fuccefs by our nurferymen, to keep the earth moift about their 
pots of plants. 
The method of packing is as follows ; they put a quantity 
of rotten fern, or leaves of trees, almoft diflblved to mould, 
into the balket or cafe ; then link their pots into it ; the furface 
of the pots, and the vacancies between them, mull be filled up 
and covered with wet mofs, and then covered over with wheat 
Araw, which mull be fecured very clofe over the mofs, by 
flicks placed crofs and crofs ; this will keep in the moifture: 
The top of the balket, or cafe, is to be worked over the plants 
with loofe wicker-work, or hoops, and then covered with Rulfia 
■matting; by thefe means the plants may be font a voyage of 
two months, without requiring any water. 
It is with plealure I hear that a garden is eftablilhed in St. 
Vincent’s, for the culture of the moft ufeful plants, intended 
for the general benefit of the American Iflands, many of which 
• may, in time, become profitable articles of commerce. 
General Melvill cannot be too much commended for the 
pains he has taken in this mo A excellent plan, and in placing 
the care of it under Dr. George Young, principal furgeon to 
■the hofpital, whofe indefatigable zeal in collecting and propa- 
gating a variety of the moA valuable plants, is known to 
all the curious botaniAs about London ; who are fo well 
fatisfied of the utilitj- of fuch a garden, that they have contri- 
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