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backwards and fonvards, a distance of more 
than fifty miles ; and have no doubt but the 
inside of a chariot, stage-coach, or on the roof 
of the same, or any other machine with good 
springs, will answer equally well. 
Packing. 
As these flowers, exchanged or purchased, 
must sometimes be conveyed from some dis- 
tant part of the country, consequently they 
must remain out of the earth for some time, 
it will not be improper in this place to give 
particular directions for packing them up, a 
matter few people pay proper care and atten- 
tion to, and in consequence often lose their 
best flowers, such as are not easily obtained 
again. If yom* plants are to be carried to a 
short distance, they may be taken in pots in a 
box or basket, ’with moss thrust in close be- 
tween them ; for this purpose, they may be 
conveyed in a cart or other carriage, where 
they will not be shaken. Plants sent from 
Lancashire or Yorkshire to London, or from 
the city of Norudch, or more distant parts, 
must be taken out of the pots, and wrapped 
up in stiff paper, with some choice di'y moss 
carefully put about the roots, tying the same 
