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newspapers, folded and cut to size, will also do 

 if the paper is without any glaze ; but they do 

 not absorb moisture so rapidly and if you use 

 them you must be particularly careful to 

 change driers frequently. 



You should also have a good supply of sheets 

 of newspaper stock or old newspapers cut as 

 long as your mounting sheets and twice as 

 wide, so that when folded once they form 

 covers of the same size as the sheets. Plants 

 to be pressed are placed in these covers ; they 

 can then be moved when changing driers with- 

 out actually touching them and without dis- 

 turbing their position, which you will probably 

 have been at some pains to make natural and 

 graceful. Newspaper stock, cut to size, costs 

 50 to 75 cents per ream at the paper-dealer's. 



All papers can be used and dried an indefi- 

 nite number of times. 



13. Brushes. You will want a soft paint- 

 brush, size 2, to use when arranging the plants 

 in the press, for they must be touched as little 

 as possible by warm fingers, and a large, coarse 

 brush an inch or two across for spreading glue. 



14. A small quantity of Cotton-wool. This 



