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or fait, then dry it for ufe. When tho- 

 roughly dry, fill a glafs or flonc jar half 

 full of Sand, in which ftick the Flowers in 

 their natural fituation, and afterwards 

 cover them gently with the fame, about 

 the eighth pare of an inch above the 

 Flower. Place the glafs in the fun, or, if 

 in winter-time, in a room v/here a con- 

 ilant lire is kept, till the Flower is per- 

 fedly dried. Then remove the Sand with 

 the utmoil precaution, and clean the Leaves 

 with a feather brufh. Particular Flowers 

 lofe in fome meafure their natural lively 

 colours, but this may be helped by the 

 afliftancc of art. 



Rofes and other Flowers of a deli- 

 cate colour, recover their natural iuftre 

 by being expofcd to a moderate vapour 

 of Brimftone; but Crimfon or Scarlet 

 Flowers, by being exoofcd to the vapour 



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