INTRODUCTION 17 



bind the books up by means of raffia in covers of 

 thicker paper and of attractive colors, having 

 covers about twelve and a half inches long by six 

 and a quarter inches wide and then folding them 

 in the middle. 



You can get some interesting illustrations for 

 your wild flower booklets, especially of the leaves 

 of the wild flowers, by making prints on blue-print 

 paper, or better on van Dyke Solar paper. Such 

 prints are very attractive and will add much to the 

 interest of your booklets. 



It will also be worth while to press some of 

 the smaller and more attractive of the common 

 flowers and mount them upon the sheets of which 

 your booklets are made, so that these pressed 

 specimens will be a part of the completed book- 

 let. For pressing such flowers very likely it will 

 be possible to obtain some of the thick botani- 

 cal drying paper, which can be purchased of 

 any dealer in school supplies, but if this is not 

 available blotting paper or even newspapers will 

 answer very well, and many of the smaller speci- 

 mens may be readily pressed between the leaves 

 of a book, choosing some old book in which the 

 paper is porous. Your success in drying these 

 specimens so that the colors do not fade will de- 

 pend very largely upon how often you change the 

 dryers. You can get especially good results by 

 using dryers which have been heated near a radia- 



