30 SEA MOSSES. 



of a given genus and species, interesting wholly for 

 that fact. If it is a full grown typical form with 

 fniil, all the belter. Now all are not Ixiianists. 

 Most of those who will read these iKigcs will have 

 an interest in these plants, to which the scientific 

 interest will Ik: seconilory. I want to say then to 

 them: look for the best things, get the whv.le 

 plant when you can, but get and jiresene the 

 most perfect and beautiful plants. It is the nile 

 with the botanist to put but one species :. each 

 paper or card ; I certainly advise disregarding this rule, 

 unless you arc mounting for scientific purposes altogether 

 or chiefly. With the numberless shades of red which 

 one group of "Sea Mosses" will give you, wiih the 

 various kinds of green which the other two will 

 present, you will have opjxjrtunity to display all the 

 taste and skill you are naaster of. For in combining 

 several different colors and forms, on iht ne 

 paper, you may often produce the roost brilliant 

 results. A little practice will soon make you able to 

 handle two or three plants at the same time in 

 " floating them out," almost as readily as you man- 

 age one. Then again, you will soon find it p<> 

 with some of the more slender plants to work out 

 interesting and beautiful *' designs " in the same way. 

 Initial letters, even monograms, may not be beyond 



