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and if not kept fufhciently warm, the hu- 

 midity of the Flowers will not wholly eva- 

 porate. 



126. Another Method of preferring Flozvers 

 a long while, in their natural Shape and 

 Colour, 



Take the fined River Sand, diverted cf 

 whatever impurities it may contain ; then 

 dry it in the fun or a flove, fift it through 

 a fieve, and only make ufe of the fineft 

 part. Procure a Tin Box, or a Wooden 

 Eox lined with Tin, of any fize you 

 think proper, cover the bottom of the 

 Box three or four inches deep with pre- 

 pared Sand, and flick in it the Stalks 

 of the Flowers in rows, but in fuch a 

 manner that none of the Flowers may 

 touch each other, afterwards filling the 

 vacuities between the Stalks with Sand. 

 Then fp read the Sand all round the Flowers, 



which 



