AND SEEDS ON SHIP-BOARD. 
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lowing extract from one of his letters will show 
the results : — 
“ We have done wonders with your cases in 
India, as well as in this country When 
I tel] you that nearly twenty thousand tea-plants 
were taken in safety and in high health from Shan- 
ghae to the Himalayas, you will have an idea of 
our success. The same success attended some 
cases packed by me for the United States. A 
large number of rare and beautiful trees and 
shrubs sent by me at different times to this coun- 
try have arrived in the best order — scarcely a 
species has been lost. For these results we are 
indebted to you.” 
It is perfectly needless to specify any more 
instances, as the use of the closed cases has be- 
come general. There is not, I believe, a single 
portion of the civilized world which has not 
more or less benefited by their introduction, and 
I believe that they are now universally adopted. 
The French and English governments have or- 
dered these cases to be used in their expeditions 
of discovery, and there are few, I imagine, who 
will now imitate the ill-timed economy of M. 
Gruillemin, who was sent by the Minister of Agri- 
culture and Commerce at Paris to Brazil, for 
the purpose of obtaining information respecting 
the culture and preparation of the tea-plant, and 
