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& cultivate it, you must be diligent in Planting in it all such plants not in Kew Garden as you can Collect or as he may supply you with & you must always have some of Every sort Establishd, either in Boxes of a Proper Size & shape for the Plant Cabbin that will be created or in Large Chinese Pots, ready to be shipd on the shortest notice, at the Season when the Chinese ships sail for Europe: you are also to prepare dried specimens of all such plants that you send home intended for Europe as you shall be able to procure in Flower & in Fruit and having referrd them by name or by numbers to the growing plants send home of guard you are to forward them to me in order to enable me to know the plants sent home immediately on their arrival
Mr Lance will give you at a proper time, an opportunity of visiting Macao & Daney Island, on both of these you will find Nepenthes distillatoria which is calld by the Europeans there pig-basket plant there is a great denderatiem at Kew You will also find Enchien [their?] quinqueflora x x &