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figure or vessel f, g, and discharge the water into the basin v beneath it. The 
bottom part, x, y , turns in a groove in the cross bar, or at the bottom of the fountain, 
the top part turning a small cog wheel, within the extremity of the projecting plate 
l, which communicates by wire or otherwise with the instrument it has to play, which 
being fixed within, or near the figure o, makes it appear as though the sounds pro- 
ceeded from the figure. The overplus water may be projected from as many fanciful 
figures as may be thought necessary, placed round about f, altogether forming an 
unusual, and very pretty effect. 
PREPARATION AND MANAGEMENT OF PLANTS DURING 
A VOYAGE FROM INDIA. BY DR. WALLICH. 
COMMUNICATED TO THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
The subject may be considered under the four following heads. 1 . The pre- 
paring plants for the voyage : 2. the packing them : 3. their treatment during the 
voyage : and 4, their management upon their arrival. 
1. With regard to preparing plants for a voyage, it is of great importance to 
attend to the age and strength of the subjects. 
Very often plants of tender age, or already weak and sickly, or grafts only 
recently or imperfectly united to their stock, are crowded together hastily into the 
cases, in which they are to perform their voyage, and they are then put on ship- 
board without being sufficiently rooted. 
No wonder that plants thus treated should soon perish, or, if indeed a few of 
them should survive their transmission, that they should be so sickly upon reaching 
Europe as to perish presently after. To obviate this, invariably select plants 
already advanced in age, with a strong root and thick stem ; and only such grafts 
as have already been established two or three years on old healthy stocks. 
2. In Packing, the following directions particularly require to be observed. 
It has been the custom to make the chests very large, and to crowd into such chests, 
as many plants as they will hold ; this practice has had, amongst others, this bad 
effect, that captains however well disposed at first to pay the plants every attention, 
have soon found the cases troublesome, unwieldy, and unsightly. 
No case should be more than three feet long, eighteen inches in width, and 
sixteen in depth below the roof. The depth of the roof should be sixteen inches 
more, so that the shutters, when opened, will be the same depth as the sides of the 
boxes. The breadth of the upper rail should be five inches, which will admit of a 
piece of painted canvas sufficiently large to cover the whole sides, to be rolled upon 
it, and fixed to each side. 
On no account use the common tarred canvas, which is a very imperfect defence 
against rain and sea spray, and in the next place, that whenever a number of chests 
are to be placed, in a row, close to each other, it would be preferable to use one 
piece of canvas instead of many. 
