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never yet Receivd a Plant Cabbin under the management of an European gardener, the accession you will make to the Royal Gardens will be immense, varieties of the azalea indeica has been sent home repeatedly & I have seen hundreds of Plants of that delecate vegetable dead in the Earth in which they had been Planted, but not a single one ever arrived alive at Kew
The mode of Culture of the Nelumbo at Pekin is well worthy of enquiry it Flowers there Every Summer in waters that are never over for several months in the winter we are told that the Plants are imbedded in the mud to a considerable depth when winter approaches, but we are not acquainted with the Particulars of the Process, if you can enable us to grow Nelumbrium in the Ponds of our Gardens your name will be handed down to Posterity as a benefactor to horticulture The first step to be article taken is to conceive to be the Procuring of the seeds of the Plant Raised at Pekin as these no doubt will produce Plants much more hardy than those Raisd from seed Ripend in a hot Climate
I am not sure that we Possess the Real Camellia Sasanqua, it is a Plant from which the Chinese extract oil, all Plants that Produce oil are interesting to our manufacturers & this Plant may if we Procure it prove a Profitable article of cultivation in some of our various