men foon to perifli and grow rancid. Such packets of feeds, as 
are not opened, (liould be kept as they come over in their bot- 
tles, canifters, or jars, in the cooled; cellars, in tight calks or 
clofe boxes ; for we may obferve, that it has been the practice 
of all ages, in hot climates, to keep corn found by placing it in 
fubterraneous caverns. 
I mu ft here take notice of a method that I wifli to have 
tried, in order to bring Mangoes and Mangofteens with the 
ftones found in them from the Eaft-lndies, and alfo the fruit of 
the Chocolate Nut, and the Avocado Pear, &c. from the Weft- 
Indies. 
It is well known to moft gentlemen, that the Italians have a 
method of fending fruit through different parts of the country, 
by giving them a flight covering of wax, which preferves them 
‘frefh for a long time. If then we follow the fame method with 
Mangoes, Mangofteens, Chocolate Fruit, Avocado Pear, and 
many other fruits, packing them in boxes, or fmall calks fur- 
rounded with clayed fugar, or what is generally called in the 
fhops Lilbon fugar, I make no doubt but the ftones and feeds 
at leaft will come over in a growing ft ate ; fome of the ripe 
Mangoes and Mangofteens in wax, may be covered with paper 
■each, and fent home in fmall boxes-; for Ihould the pulp be de- 
cayed, yet the kernels in the ftones may be found and in a 
growing ftate, as happens in Apples, Oranges, Lemons and 
Limes, alfo Peaches, Plumbs and moft ftone-fruit, the pulp of 
.which is generally rotten before the feeds are fown. 
Another reafon why fo many of the Tea feeds fail, is the 
method taken by the Chinefe to keep them found ; which they 
' do, by drying them in earthen veflels over the f re ; and they 
.alfo treat many of the feeds that come from the northern parts 
of China in the fame manner; this is intended as a caution to 
curious perfons who purchafe them, to defire they would Ipare 
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