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your reach with a little care and practice. Let the 

 "Sea Mosses" contribute to the cultivation of every 

 faculty, and all . possible means of pleasure for you. 



For preserving your treasures after they are neatly 

 mounted, pressed and dried, you have two courses 

 open to you. You can take care of them as the 

 botanist does, by arranging them systematically in a 

 herbarium, with covers of stout Manilla paper folded 

 1O2 X 162 inches for each genus, and the species 

 separated by white sheets or thinner covers ; or you 

 can provide yourself with blank books, made for the 

 purpose, having the leaves cut to fit the sizes of 

 paper or card which you mount your plants on, so 

 as to slip the corners of the cards into the cuts. 

 It is well in that case to provide a book with 

 leaves large enough to hold two or four cards each. 

 By following the directions here given, I cannot 

 doubt you wiU soon become a successful collector, 

 and an expert in mounting and preserving " Sea 

 Mosses." 



METHODS OF STUDY. 



Having now the book as you go to the sea shore, 

 the question you are most likely to ask is : " How 

 shall I use it, so as to make it a true and helpful 

 guide in learning about these plants?" I will try to 

 tell you in a few words. Most of the descriptions 



