NOTE. 



(^See page 13, vol. i.) 



A METHOD has since been mentioned to me, by which the 

 colours of the flowers of plants are well preserved. The pro- 

 cess was this : — The paper being first heated before the 

 fire, or in an oven, the plant recently gathered is placed 

 between the hot sheets, and pressed. It is requisite, how- 

 ever, that the paper, in the same heated state, be renewed 

 at intervals, on account of the expressed juices from the 

 stalks and leaves fermenting, which might otherwise injure 

 the plants. 



There is also a method of preserving plants in flower, by 

 which their natural form, as well as colours, can be preserved. 

 It consists in placing the plant in a jar, and pouring fine sand 

 upon it, until the whole plant is covered : it is then to be 

 placed, still kept in the jar, into an oven ; after which, being 

 taken out, and the sand removed, the plant is found preserved 

 both in its form and colour. 



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