DIRECTIONS 



DRYING AM) PRESERVING PLANTS. 



It is a matter of very great importance to the Botanist to pos- 

 good Herbarium. Nearly every student in Botany makes an attempt to 

 form <»ne, but it is frequently done in so slovenly a manner that the col- 

 :. is worth] 



Apparatus for Drying Plants. 



quantity of old newspapers, or what is still Letter, coarse white 

 wrapping-paper, 41 he procured and cut into pieces sixteen inches Long and 



eleven and a half inches wide ; then place them together in piles of eighl 



in thickness, and stitch the corners, BO as to keep them in their places. 



Having prepared seventy. live or a hundred such pads, which I shall call 



BS of pine hoards of the same size as your driers, then 



provide yourself with a hundred or more .-beets of newspaper f folded 



I tO allow a plant to be placed between the folds. Let these 



- !>e cut to correspond with your driers. You will then be supplied 



with the simplest apparatus for drying plants. 



To the Collector. 



Provide yourself with a tin box seventeen inches long, and a florist's 



trowel butcher's knife will do very well). In collecting plants, 



if they are small and herbaceous, procure the whole plant, including the 



Handle it carefully, and if the root is dirty wash it by -hakim: it 



. in water, terwards flirt as much of the water oil" a- yon 



can without injuring the plant, then place it carefully in your h 



• ten or a dozen g 1 specimens of the same plant. The 



IS Clear weather; and plants are in a : 



wlen they are in full flower. S 



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