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If a press cannot easily be had, books moved, and the plants examined. I 



may be employed. Next, some quires not sufficiently dried, they mav again 



of unsized blotting paper must be pro- be replaced in the same manner for a 



vided. The specimens, when taken day or two. In drying plants with a 



out of the tin box, must be carefully hot smoothing iron, they must be placed 



spread on a piece of pasteboard, co- within several sheets of blotting paper, 



vered with a single sheet of the paper, and ironed till they become sufficiently 



quite dry; then three or four sheets of dry. This method answers best for dr\-- 



the same paper must be placed above ing succulent and mucilaginous plants, 



the plant, to imbibe the moisture as it When properly dried, the specimens 



is pressed out. It is then to be put into should be placed in sheets of writing 



the press. As many plants as the press paper, and may be slightly fastened bv 

 will hold may be piled up in this man- 

 ner. At first, they ought to be pressed 

 gently. After being pressed for about 

 twenty-four hours, the plants ought to 

 be examined, that any leaves or petals 



making the top and bottom of the stalk 

 pass through a slip of the paper, cut for 

 the purpose. The name of the genus 

 and species should be written down, 

 the place where it was found, nature of 

 which have been folded may be spread the soil, and the season of the year, 

 out, and dry sheets of paper laid over These specimens may be collected into 

 them. They may now be replaced in 

 the press, and a greater degree of pres- 

 sure applied. The press ought to stand 

 near a fire, or in the sunshine. After 

 remaining two days in this situation, 

 they should be again examined, and 

 dry sheets of paper be laid over them. 

 The pressure ought then to be con- 

 siderably increased. After remaining 

 three days longer in the press, the 



genera, orders, and classes, and titled 

 and preserved in a portfolio or cabinet. 

 The method of preserving many of the 

 cryptogamous plants is more difficult, 

 on account of the greater quantity of 

 moisture which they contain, and the 

 greater delicacy of their texture." — En- 

 cyc. Am. 



HERBARY was a department of the 

 garden formerly much more cultivated 



plants may be taken out, and such as than at present, when the more potent 

 are sufficiently dry may be put in a dry medicinal plants of hotter climates are 

 sheet of writing paper. Those plants so easily procurable. The following is 

 which are succulent may require more a list of the tenants of the herbary, the 

 pressure, and the blotting paper to be appropriate cultivation of which will be 



found under their particular titles : — 



again renewed. Plants which dry very 

 quickly ought to be pressed with con- 

 siderable force when lirst put into the 

 press; and, if delicate, the blotting 

 paper should be changed every day. 

 When the stem is woody, it may be 

 thinned with a knife, and, if the flower 

 be thick or globular, as the thistle, one Caraway 

 side of it may be cut away, as all that Chamomile 

 is necessary, in a specimen, is to pre- 

 serve the character of the class, order, 

 genus, and species. Plants may be 

 dried in a box of sand in a more expe- 

 ditious manner ; and this method pre- 

 serves the colour of some plants better. 

 The specimens, after being pressed for 

 ten or twelve hours, must be laid with- 

 in a sheet of blotting paper. The box 

 must contain an inch deep of fine dry 



Angelica. 



Balm. 



Basil. 



Blessed Thistle. 



Borage. 



Burnet. 



Chervil. 



Coriander. 



Dill. 



Hyssop. 



Lavender. 



Liquorice. 



Marigold. 



Marjoram. 



Mint. 



Pennyroyal. 



Peppermint. 



Purslane. 



Rue. 



Sage. 



Savory. 



Scurvy Grass. 



Tansy. 



Tarragon. 



Thyme. 



Wormwood. 



sand on which the sheet is to be placed, clava Herculis. 



HERBERTIApu/f?ie//a. Half-hardy 

 bulb. Seed. Sandv loam and peat. 

 HERB-GRACE. 'See Rue. 

 HERCULES-CLUB. Xanthoxylum 



H E R M A N N I A . 



and then covered with sand an inch 



thick ; another sheet may then be de- j Green-house evergreen 



posited in the same manner, and so on, ■ tings. Light rich soil 



till the box be full. The box must be 



placed near a fire for two or three days. Hardy and half-hardy orchids 



Then the sand must be carefully re- | sidn. Chalk and peat 



Forty species, 

 shrubs. Cut- 



H E R M I N I U M . Three species. 

 Divi- 



