ABSTRACT
Seeds, bulbs, and tubers are easily collected, and as easily transmitted to Europe from very distant countries. The first, seeds, require to be gathered quite ripe; to be wrapped, a quantity of each, in paper, done up in a parcel, and kept, if possible, while on board-ship in an airy part of the cabin. Mosses and cryptogamous plants may be generally dried in common way: those which grow in tufts should be separated by the hand to form neat specimens. Sea-weeds require a slight washing in fresh water, and common blotting-paper is best for removing the moisture from the tribe of plants. The public may now see growing in our Botanic Gardens the rare Lace-tree of Jamaica, the yet rarer Ivory Palm-nut of the Magdalena, and the Cow-tree from the Caraccas. The interest of these is greatly enhanced when, in the same establishment, the curious and beautiful lace of the first, and the fruit and ivory-like seeds of the second.
