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licoe flretched tight. The utmoft care 

 Is requifite, to have the {training cloths 

 perfectly clean and dry before they are 

 ufed. 



After having caufed the cloths to im- 

 bibe as much Oil of Ben as poflible^ 

 fqueeze them a little, then ftretch and 

 flx them on the hooks of the frames ; 

 put one frame thus completed at the 

 bottom of the box-, and upon its cloth 

 ftrow equally thofe flowers, the eflence of 

 which you intend to extradt ; cover them 

 with another frame, oil the cloth of which 

 you are to ftrow more flowers, and con- 

 tinue to adt in the fame manner till the 

 box is quite filled. The frames being 

 each about two inches thick, the flowers 

 undergo very little preffurc, though they 

 lye between the cloths. At the expiration 

 of twelve hours, apply frefh flowers in. 

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