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Colonies
Hot houses for Protecting plants from the Rigors of winter are Common at Pekin, [also spelt Peking] they are mentiond in the 3d Volume of Memoires Sur les Chinois but little explaind no doubt something may be learnd from them Particularly on the subject of accelerating or Retarding the time of the flowering of Plants which they are said to do, the Gardener will not fail of learning something if he can be brought into contact with his bretheren of Pekin.
in the same volume of the Memoires you will find a list of Chinese Garden Plants or rather a dissertation on the Qualities of some of the most Remarkable of these, the most of those noticed are already in our Gardens whether No 3 the Tsieou-Lai-Tang has yet been imported I can not ascertain, I believe it is still unknown to us if .No 9. Yê-piang - here may be the Pergularia if not it is certainly a most desirable Plant to be introduced among us
we are not well acquainted with the different varieties of the Tea Plant & the Public have expressed much Curiosity on the subject Mr Reeves a most intelligent servant of the Company is Probably Posessed of several of them that are growing in his Garden, these will be a valuable acquisition to your Plant Cabbins for the Tea is a Tender Shrub & seldom succeeds under the care of the Captain of an Indiaman who is so frequently interrupted by more serious duties from the care of his box of Growing Plants