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leaves and flowers, as the fruit is ordinarily not amenable 

 to treatment, should gather them in dry weather, place 

 the specimens between blotting-paper, and then submit 

 them to a heavy weight, being careful in the first place 

 to arrange and display them in a natural manner. They 

 should from time to time be examined and the blotting- 

 paper changed. Heat is sometimes adopted, and with 

 some plants it acts very well. The plants in this case 

 should be arranged between sheets of blotting-paper, placed 

 in a broad flat pan, covered over to a depth of about half 

 an inch with dry sand and then put before the fire, or in 

 the oven if it is not too hot. In three or four hours the 

 specimens should be perfectly dried. Another method is 

 to place the plants between blotting-paper and then iron 

 each individually, very gradually, and with the iron not 

 too hot. The essence of this method lies in the word 

 gradually. It takes time and patience, but the results often 

 come out very well. 



HAZEL (CoRYLus Avellana) 



Though the hazel is so commonly met with in our 

 hedges, we must not forget that, like the hawthorn and 

 some other denizens of the hedgerow, it may really take 

 rank as one of our trees, not indeed in competition with 

 the kingly oak, the far-spreading beech, the aspiring 

 poplar, but a tree nevertheless. At the hands of the hedge- 

 clipper it has to share and share alike in the general lopping 

 and trimming, but when we find it in woodland or copse, 

 where it grows as Nature wills it, it may attain to a very 

 considerable height and girth. 



