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middle of it, and paste the four edges of the label, making as 
thin a margin of glue as I can conveniently do. ThenI lay 
the brush back on the glue-pot, take up the label, and lay it 
on the corner of the sheet in position. I press it gently 
down, take the bit of white paper in hand, lay it over the 
label, and rub hard. The whole operation takes a compara- 
tively few seconds, the label is in position, it is not soiled by 
rubbing the fingers over it, while the small amount of glue on 
ths edges of the label keeps the corner of the sheet from curl- 
ing in the slightest degree. When the label is glued all over, 
the sheet curls. This method I learned some years ago from 
Mr. M. S. Bebb, and I most heartily endorse it. 
Then I lift up the plant, reverse it, lay it on the blotting- 
paper, and paste it over, not too thickly, getting as little glue 
as possible on the blotting paper. Then I lay the plant back 
in position on the mounting sheet, lay over it a couple of dri- 
out another sheet from the mounting box and repeat the oper- 
ation. When the plant is laid on the blotting paper to be 
pasted, it will be found that what glue may have got on to it 
in pasting the previous plant has been absorbed into the sheet, 
so that one lays the plant on a dry sheet, instead of on a 
gluey one, thereby getting glue on the upper surface of the 
plant. Almost all herbaria show dried glue on the plants and 
Sheets. The plants have doubtless been pasted on pieces of 
newspaper, or some other kind of paper which is non-absorb- 
ent, and so the glue which remains on the paper soils the 
plants, unless the paper is changed for almost every plant. 
With a little care I can easily make a single sheet of blotting 
Paper last for at least one hundred mounts, before throwing 
it away, for of course in time the sheet will become filled with 
the absorbed glue. If a drop of glue stands on the sheet 
without being absorbed, as sometimes happens, I take it up 
with my finger, rub my finger on my apron, and go on. I 
reverse the sheet of blotting paper every few minutes. 
Ow we come to a plant too flimsy to be lifted. Such we 
constantly meet with. It takes but a few seconds longer to 
mount it. After pasting the labels, and pockets if there are 
any, on the mounting sheet, I take up the blotting paper and 
reverse it on the sheet, making one corner and edge of the 
