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1 2 5. Another Secret to preferve Flowers. 



Take the fin eft River Sand you can 

 get, after having fifted it feveral times 

 through a fine fieve, throw it into a 

 glafs veiTel full of clear Water, and rub 

 it a good while between your fingers to 

 render it ftill finer ; then pour off the 

 Water by inclination, and dry the Sand 

 in the fun. The Sand being thus pre- 

 pared, bury the Flowers gently in it with 

 their Leaves and Stalk, difpofing them 

 in fuch a manner that their form may 

 not be in the leaft injured. After hav- 

 ing thus kept Flowers fome time, till 

 their humid particles are entirely evapo- 

 rated, take them out, and inclofe them 

 in bottles, well corked ; fecure them from 

 all changes of the atmofphere, but let 

 them enjoy a temperate warmth; for if 

 the heat is too great ; the colours fade ; 



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