342 MEMORANDA. 
venient; and several quires of thin white blotting-paper. We wil 
are going to dry Scarlet Geraniums, Periwinkles, single stim Stocks, and 
burnums, as they are some of the flowers most liable to change colour. 
Take your blotting-pad, raise the whole of the blotting-paper from the cover 
on each side. For the Geraniums, Periwinkles, and Stocks, take each bloom 
out singly, and, having burned the stalks as directed, bore a number of holes in 
one of the thicknesses of blotting-paper sufficiently large to admit the calyces 
of the flowers, and so far apart that, when the flowers are arranged, no one 
bloom shall touch another; pass the stalk and calyx of each flower through 
the pad, so that the petals of the flower shall rest flat upon the surface of the 
blotting-paper, and no part of them be pressed against the calyx. Arrange 
each truss of Laburnum (having passed its stalk through the pad) in such a 
at the blooms shall be distinct upon the paper; now lay the other 
thickness of blotting-paper over the petals, and, holding the two pads together, 
turn them over on one of the covers. Gently press down the stalks and 
yer an which will now be uppermost, and shut down the other cover upon 
em; tie round and round both opposite edges of the pad with cotton, taking 
bright fire, or put them in a very gentle oven. When one side of the pad is 
so hot that you can just bear your hand upon it, turn the other side to the 
t the process for an hour. Then open the pads, and examine 
the flowers ; if they feel like smooth paper to the touch, they are sufficiently 
dried, but, if they have still any fleshy feeling about them, the pads must be 
reclosed, and the exposure to heat continued ; but after bes UT they must 
be carefully watched, the pads being frequently unclosed fi e purpose of 
examination, as a very little £oo much heat will cause the Bude to scorch and 
bro Some flowers will, of course, take longer drying than others even 
the holes on the side on which the stalks are, and, having seen that the stalks 
and calyces are free, to take hold of the ee on the other side between a small 
ivory folder and one finger, and draw the flowers out ; put them away imme- 
diately between sheets of white writing-paper, taking care not to lay one flower 
over another. Remove the top sheet of blotting-paper from each side 
using the pad again. Double flowers, such as Stocks, small Roses, N. 
etc., must have layers of cotton-wool or small pieces of blotting-paper 
be- 
fore they are subjected to any heat or pressure. Calceolarias must have cotton- 
wool or very fine sand very carefully put inside each flower; the flower being 
just sufficiently filled to retain its shape without any fear of its burstin The 
Fuchsia should have a part of its calyx passed through the paper, ah a little 
cotton-wool put between the flower and the surface of the paper, and also 
between the corolla and sepals, so as to keep the form of the flower as much 
