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beyond the Atlantic : nothing is therefore more ne« 
ceflary than to facilitate the tranfportation of feeds and 
plants into diftant countries in a ftate of vegetation. 
The ingenious and great promoter of natural hiftory, 
John Ellis, Efq-, has favoured the world with a curious 
pamphlet, containing the belt directions for that purpofe ; 
it would be therefore fuperfiuous to repeat what he has 
already faid, were it not neceffary to make my perform- 
ance more eompleat, by inferting a few hints abftraCted 
from his ufeful publication * and adding to it fome re- 
marks of my own. 
Seeds of all kinds, intended to be fent abroad, muft 
be collected perfectly ripe in dry weather, and kept dry 
without expofmg them to funfhine. Hard nuts, and 
leguminous feeds, may be plunged for a moment in the 
preparing liquor and then dried again, as this would 
prevent infeCts from attacking them. In general muft 
the feeds be previoufly examined, and care taken that 
no infeCts may be fent with them *, this can fometimes 
be difcovered by the naked eye, fometimes by a magnify- 
ing glafs, and by a little brown or blank fpot on theout- 
fide of the feed $ fuch ripe and chofen feeds, if of a good 
fize, each of them may be wrapped in a fiat piece of 
' becs-wax ; if find! or quite minute, many may be put 
together in fuch a piece of bees-wax, or, what is (till 
better, in a piece of cerate paper, i. e. paper fteeped in 
melted bees-wax, and all thefe parcels muft be put in a 
pot or box, proportionate to the quantity of feeds you 
have, filled with melted wax, to the height of about the 
fize of the feeds you are to fend, or the parcels you have 
made *, and when the wax is pretty cool, but (till fo ft, 
lay your feeds or parcels in rows in the foft wax, and then 
fill again fome melted wax in, and .proceed to lay feeds 
in the fame manner till your pot or box be full. Pulpy 
feeds, as thofe of ftrawberries., mulberries, arbutus's, 
D may 
