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wash tlie whole over with a wegji solution of corrosive sublimate, 

 care being used, as it is a deaJly poison, — but good as a wash. 



Grasses niay be tastefully arranged with Immortelles, and wild 

 red berries, and nicely preserved. 



The'leaves of Autumn, with their gorgeous tints may be pressed, 

 and preserved for years. After drying, and pressing them, their 

 upper surface should be delicately varnished, with white varnish ; 

 then re-dried. They can be arranged in the form of a Harp, or 

 a Cross, on nice card-board, and framed, and they make the Lib- 

 rary, or family Sitting-room look cheerful in the light of a glow- 

 ing fire in Winter time. The gatherei; of Autumnal loaves should 

 commence collecting them, when they btgin first to change 

 from green, into bright colors, to make a fine assortment. 



It is a peculiar charm of our American forests that they deck 

 themselves in their gay, autumnal livery, to delight us with their. 

 mosaic appearance. It was formerly supposed that frost changed 

 our leaves into crimson and yellow hues. It is now the opinion of 

 scientific men, that the leaves of our treesare changed and fall as the 

 ripened fruit of the tree. In England they have nothing but the 

 russet brown upon their forests, and can scarcely believe our Au- 

 tumnal scenery to be as gorgeous as American artists represent it 

 to b«. When Dr. Hitchcock of Amherst College was in England, 

 he exhibited ske,tches of our Aiitumal scenery. His English 

 friends expr,esped ^ astonishment, because ths artist had put so 

 many colors upon his trees, while they deemed^it inapossible that 

 they were actually so. When Dr. Hitchcock told them ''no paint- 

 er could imitate the many and, gorgeous tints of our Autumnal 

 scenery," they were doubly astonished. • 



At one of the Royal evening parties £vt France, a lady appeared 

 with a sash and headdress, formed of ;weli preserved' and brilliant 

 Autumnal leaves from America, ^nd they creatfed universal ad- 

 miration. -Nature is prolific in beauty, and when we cati transfer 

 her charms to our houses by a careful preservation of it, it is 



