CHAPTEE XX. 

 COLLECTING AND PRESERVING PLANTS. 



EXERCISE LXXX. 

 How to gather, press, and mount Plants. 



FIG. 421. 



IMPLEMENTS. For your botanical excursions you 

 will need a small trowel for digging roots (Fig. 421), 

 or a large, strong, clasp-knife, that will serve both for 

 digging and for cutting branches ; a strong portfolio, 

 from sixteen to twenty inches long, and ten or twelve 

 inches wide, tied with tape or a strong cord. It should 

 be made of two stout sheets of pasteboard, separated 

 at the back (Fig. 422), and will be all the better if 

 covered with enamelled cloth, to protect it from 



