CHAPTER II 

 THE BOTANICAL OUTFIT 



Must be orderly and neat A list of requisites Working 



expenses small after initial outlay Well illustrated 



Flora indispensable How to secure second-hand 



. books How to make a press Separate mounts 



versus albums Cabinet for storing the collection. 



A BOTANICAL outfit may be as simple or as elab- 

 orate as your purse permits, but it must al- 

 ways be orderly, neat, and dainty. 



Naturalists, like artists and poets, were once 

 supposed to be more or less addicted to long 

 hair and goggles, to be absent-minded and to 

 have souls above order; but such ideas are 

 fast dying out, for the true naturalist, even of 

 the most bespectacled variety, has cupboards 

 and drawers arranged with the utmost care, 

 and woe betide the unlucky wight who meddles 

 with these things ! 



When gathering together a botanical outfit, 

 be sure that all is as good and neat as you can 

 make it, and then keep it so. 



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