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Grow, the Soil that best suits them & in case they are plants cultivated by the chinese for food or for ornament, the kind of manure generaly applied used to promote their fertility & the manner in which it is used applied
You are also to procure as far as you are able from the Chinese a knowledge of the manner in which the plants rendered dwarf by their Gardiners are managed , in order to effect that purpose, particularly in the case of the Bamboo & to transmit all such information as you are able to Procure on the subject from time to time to Mr Aiton, you are also carefully to notice the manner in which the [Flat?] Peach the species of [Dyerspy?].. called in China Fowls heart, the [odoratifinia?] & the Calycanthus [indecipherble] are managd by the Chinese, in order that you may be enabled to inform me beter why it is, that the First two can never be made to bear Fruit in England & why the other