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4. Living Shrubby or Herbaceous Plants. Plant them in square wooden 

 boxes, and place these close together in a larger box, with a glass hd ; as 

 described and figured in Encyc. of Gard. (§ 1405.) 



5. Epiphytical Plants. Get them in as large and old masses as possible, 

 and pack them loosely in moss, in boxes so constructed that the plants 

 may be exposed to a free admission of air, but be protected from the sea- 

 water. To the above we may add, __ . 



Aquatic Plants. Pack, or rather plant them, loosely in moss, in a vessel 

 open, or covered with a netting at top, and containing some water under 

 the moss. Sprinkle the moss with water once or twice a-day. In this way 

 we brought a rare aquatic from the canal of the Brenta, near Venice, to 

 Paris, in the Autumn of 1819. 



6. Specimens of Plants. Dry between leaves of common brown paper ; 

 or for such plants as pinuses, heaths, and for fleshy-leaved plants m gene- 

 ral, plunge in boiling water before drying, or make the papers in which 

 they are laid very hot; either of which practices will prevent -them from 

 parting from their vitality so irregularly as to fall in pieces in drying, or so 

 slowly as to render the operation very long and tedious. 



7. Specimens of fruits. Dried fruits may be packed as seeds; succulent 

 ones, placed in vessels filled with cheap weak spirits. 



8. Specimens of Capsules. Dry them and pack them carefully, so as to 

 preserve their shape. 



9. Specimens of the Woods of Commerce. Affix their local or commercial 

 names, and try and accompany them by specimens of the leaves, flowers, 

 and fruit of the tree from which they were obtained, preserved or packed 

 as before directed. 



Ornamental Flower Pots. Mr. Wilmot, of the Lewisham nursery, is 

 getting made for sale, a number of ornamental garden-pots and stands for 

 the more choice plants usually placed in the conspicuous parts of lawns. 

 A few of the patterns he has enabled us to subjoin, {fig. 60.) The 

 colour is to be a light fawn. 



The Compression of Timber, by passing planks between rollers, has lately 

 been made the subject of a patent. The chief object is its preservation 

 from dry rot, by expelling moisture and closing the interstices. 



Regent's Park. We are much gratified to learn, on the authority of 

 parliament, that the fences which surround this park will be removed as 

 soon as the trees and the turf are sufficiently grown, and the whole thrown 

 open to the public, in the same manner as Hyde Park. The present state 

 of the former has hitherto been the opprobrium of foreigners, who have 

 looked upon it as indicating an inattention to the enjoyments of the com- 

 mon people, which it is satisfactory to learn, does not exist to the extent 

 alleged. — One thing we cannot avoid noticing here is, that the single trees 



