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mens should be laid in folded sheets of thin and smooth bibulous paper 

 (such as tea-paper), and such sheets, filled with the freshly gathered 

 specimens, are to be placed between the dryers, and so transferred entire, 

 day after day, into new dryers, without being disturbed, until perfectly 

 dry. This preserves all delicate flowers better than the ordinary mode of 

 shifting the papers which are in immediate contact with the specimens, 

 and also saves much time usually lost in transferring numerous small 

 specimens, one by one, into dry paper, often to the great injury of the deli- 

 cate corolla, &c. 



5. The dried specimens, properly ticketed with the name, locality, &c., 

 and arranged under their respective genera and orders, are preserved in 

 the herbarium, either in separate double sheets, or with each species at- 

 tached by glue or otherwise to a half-sheet of strong white paper, with 

 the name written on one corner. These are collected in folios, or else lie 

 flat (as is the best mode) in parcels of convenient size, received into 

 compartments of a cabinet, with close doors, and kept in a perfectly dry 

 place. 



6. The seeds of plants intended for cultivation, which are to be trans- 

 ported to a distance before being committed to the earth, should first be 

 dried in the sun, wrapped in coarse paper, and preserved in a dry state. 

 They should not be packed in close boxes, at least so long as there is 

 danger of the retention of moisture. 



7. Roots, shrubs, &c., designed for cultivation, should be taken from 

 the ground at the close of their annual vegetation, or early in the spring 

 before growth recommences, and packed in successive layers of slightly 

 damp (but not wet) Peat-moss (Sphagnum). Succulent plants, however, 

 such as Cacti, may be packed in dry sand. 



8. Plants in a growing state can only be safely transported to a consid- 

 erable distance, especially by sea, in the closely glazed cases invented by 

 Mr. Ward ; * where they are provided with the requisite moisture, while 

 they are fully exposed to the light. 



* On the Growth of Plants in Closely Glazed Cases, by. N. B. Ward, 

 F, L. S., London, 1842. 



