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equally found and well -tailed, and had been inclofed 
in bees-wax only. 
Though part of the chefnuts in thefe jars were 
rotten ; yet it appeared plainly to be Giving to jome 
defell in them when they were firf immerfed into 
thefe fubftances ; mod probably to the latenefs of 
the feafon, when the experiments were made. 
Thofe in jar N° 4. which were inclofed in half 
bees-wax and half yellow rofin, were all turned J'of 't 
and /pongy, of a brown colour, and a moil di [agree- 
able tafle and fmell , from the refmous fleams they had 
imbibed. 
On the 24th of November la ft, I planted fix of the 
chefnuts preferved in wax and fuet (N° 2.) and fix 
of thofe preferved in wax only (N° 3.) in two gar- 
den pots , and placed them in a very fpacious conferva- 
tory, belonging to my worthy friend Philip Carteret 
Webb, Efq*, F. R. S. at his feat near Godalmin in 
Surry ; where I have the pleafure to inform your 
Lordihip and this honourable Society, that many of 
them are already germinating ; which proves this me- 
thod of prelerving the larger feeds a very proper one to 
recommend to gentlemen that go to China , and other 
parts of the Eaft Indies , to preferve many kinds of 
valuable feeds in a date of vegetation during a voyage 
of a whole year , till they arrive here ; and probably 
till they are carried to our fettlements in the Ameri- 
can colonies. 
It remains then, for gentlemen who go to the Ea/l 
Indies , to place the feeds they preferve in bees-wax , 
or bees-wax and fuet , in the cooleft part of the f.dp y 
to prevent thefe fubdances being affected with the 
heat of thofe parts, which far exceeds ours. Perhaps 
Dr. Linnaeus's method of inclofing them in a larger 
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