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PE abite hom dum areka presented by Me D Madri TE | 
"5 hiñ Pots of Pachyrhizus iem are now desired in. 
| he e ne: 
LXXX.—SCHWEINFURTH'S METHOD FOR 
PRESERVING PLANTS. 
^ useful method for gomme plants, especially those collected 
the wet season in damp tropical forests where there are 
facilities for drying paper, has been recommended by Dr. Schweinf u id í 
e well-known Afric can traveller and botanist. | DE eee. 
first di on collecting and preparing t plants and ferr 
or the herbarium | ee years ago i ok of ins 
(Anleitung zu visenachof 'obach 
tungen auf Reisen.) The ollo kb is from th 
Bulletin | sd the Torrey Botanical Club for Ne brinik: T 1888, 
999_3 ; 
Co HE, Settee * calls ‘the attention of collectors, especially those 
travelling in the tropics, to a method of preserving plants for the her. 
barium recommended by Schweinfurth, which he found oe 
Brazil 
convenient and efficient siting his tra dele in è 
“ The plants when collected are at once put between the sheets 
between two pieces of stout putant j^ means of a stra ap. 
the bundle is set upright in a tin box, and s strong sugar-eane brandy 
. eommon alcohol is poured on the sheets from above, until thet ape 
and the plants are thoroughly moistened and the liquid begins to 
off bel The bundle or bundles are kept in the tightly veo Sn tin 
box wntil a quantity of them has oam ated. Then the straps and 
Moved the single packages are wrapped up in | 
punked -aö losely and firmly as possible in a tin box about 2 feet high 
which, finally, i is tightly closed by soldering a flat cover to it. Se 
. such boxes oe : V mei in a wooden ease for pat ii Bone small 
_ boxes ought to be taken on more extended excursions. 
jo c^ PW preservation of plants after this m very littl 
ti me (an advantage an ai €—— “for traveller), for it 
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