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Notes and Gleanings. 



How TO PACK Flowers for a Journf.y. — The enclosed sketches repre- 

 sent two tin boxes for the safe conveyance of cut-flowers. It is rather vexing to 

 see flowers mauled in the way we sometimes do see them, after the greatest care 

 has been bestowed upon their cultivation. However, it has become such a 

 worn-out subject as not to require any further comment ; and, with the hope 

 that my contrivances may have a little novelty and usefulness in them, I will 

 proceed to describe them. Fig. i is a round tin box, ten inches by eight : the 



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lid fits over, and can be secured by a peg or padlock. There are six small holes 

 in a circle round the handle on the lid. The tray, Fig. 2, has an aperture in its 

 centre for the stem of a bouquet to pass through. There are two upright pieces 

 of tin an inch wide soldered on the rim, and long enough to press against the 



lid, as shown at A, in Fig. 3, after the bouquet has been fixed in the tray by means 

 of the two pins shown underneath. These upright pieces serve as handles to 

 place it in the box upon the brackets, as at B; and it is quite immovable when 

 the lid is made fast. I put a little water in, and so keep the stems moist in their 

 compartment, and the flowers dry in theirs. I have on several occasions sent 

 flowers so packed from hence to Hamburg, which have arrived, to all appear- 

 ance, as fresh as when gathered. It is a useful box for small articles of apparel 

 or refreshment. 



