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dent can hardly occur if the glass is well secured 
with a strong and close wireguard. 
Pray believe me, very truly yours, 
John Lindley. 
To N. B. Ward, Esq. 
(F) 
Copy of a Letter from Mr. J. Smith, to the 
Author. 
Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, January c lUh' i 1842. 
Dear Sir, 
In reply to your inquiry respecting the 
practical results obtained by adopting the plan of 
close-glazed cases, for the transfer of living plants 
from one country to another, I beg to say that the 
several cases which have arrived at this garden on 
that plan have shown that although all plants so 
treated may not succeed, still the deaths are but 
few in proportion to the number that we have 
witnessed in cases having open lattice or wire- 
work lids, covered with tarpauling or some such 
covering. It is much to be regretted that close- 
glazed cases were not in use during the years 
that the botanical collectors were employed in 
New Holland and the Cape of Good Hope, for 
this garden : a very great number of the plants 
which they sent home were always dead on their 
arrival, consequent on the imperfect protection 
