xxii UKYING PLANTS, HERnAUIlM. DRAW INC. PLANTS, 



A% an cxtunplc of aitplicatiun, suppost* wo take spiiii's :}!!, viuioty 8, tlio tally will bo 

 cut Uiua: — 



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Tfu" loiijj l ilt ( — ) ln t\M« ii tlif iuimi)ir t)f till- spi'cifs und tlii* miiul)i'r of the variety is 

 iniTi'ly t»> sfujiriite the tmv fiuiu tin- other, iiiul is to he eonsiilered ns tlie sif^u of seiciration. 

 Uy the use of this sijjn wveriil iiiiinhers may be eiit on one stiek : it is a fixed rule that the 

 luiiiiber shall always read from the root or sharpened end of the tally, l)ecanse it is necessary 

 fi>r the operatt>r to hold that end in his hand in eiiltinj^ the marks. Names written on tallies, 

 on the contrary, shonld always read from the lop, by which means the letters are kept at 

 the gri'atest practicable distance from the soil. 



DRYING PLANTS AND FORMING A IIKRHARIUM. 



Tmk best mode for fjardeners, and such as have little spare time to dry specimens of 

 plants, is to gather them when perfectly free from exterior moisture, i)lace them between 

 pa|)er, and press them w ith bags of hot satul. In this way they dry of their natural color in 

 a few hours. {.\fnf;. iV(//. JILst. vol. i. p. 196 ) Or they may be dried in sand. (Ibid. vol. iii. 

 p. 4.^9.) 



To fdl up a space that would otherwise remain an unseemly blank, wc shall here observe, 

 that every gardener ought to dry plants and form them into a herbarium. 'I'he herbarium 

 may be a folio volume of stout thick pajier, white, if he can afford it; if not, brown ; allowing 

 in binding the thickness of a leaf for every j)age, in order that, when filled with specimens, it 

 may shut close and preserve its fonn. Mr. Toward, w ho has formed one of the handsomest gar- 

 dener's herbariums we have any where seen, in four thick folio volumes, uses cartridge j)aper, 

 pasting to the back of each leaf a leaf of brown blotting i)aper, and round the niargin of 

 l)oth surfaces of the double leaf so formed strips of cartridge paper. These strips rather 

 more than compensate for the thickness of the dried specimens ; so that when the leaves are 

 bound up, their edges ci>t, and the books sluit close, the external air is excluded, and the 

 appearance as neat as that of any printed volume. (Gard. Mag. vol. iv. p. 4.^6.) The 

 specimens, as dried in sand, or between loose leaves of papr'ror in any old book, may be fixed 

 to the cartridge side of the leaves of the herbarium book, according to any arrangement which 

 may be preferred. 



DRAWING PLANTS, FLOWERS, FRUITS, &c. 



Every gardener ought also to be able to draw plants; and this he may acquire himself by 

 copying w ith a pen or pencil, without the aid of colors (for all the essential objects of 

 drawings may be cfTected by lines), the outlines of the ribs, veins, and other inner lines 

 of the different parts of the dried specimens as they lie flat before him on the paper. 

 Having practised this for some time, he may then draw plants, flowers, and fruits from na- 

 ture ; beginning by washing one side of a pane of glass over with gum, holding that when dry 

 between his eye and the plant or other object to be drawn, and then tracing the object with the 

 point of a nail in the gum, or on it with the point of a black-lead pencil. (Gard. Mag. vol. vi. 

 p. 305.) The outline of hard fruits, such as the apple and pear, may be correctly taken by 

 dividing them into two parts, as may that of soft fruits if not too ripe. {Gard. Mag. vol. iv. 

 p. 230. ) Every gardener ought also to be able to draw landscapes, figures, and animals, all 

 manner of garden implements and structures, and plans of gardens and maps of estates. This 

 lie may acquire himself by copying the various engravings in oxxr Enajclopcedias of Gardening 

 and Agriculture ; and for plans, maps, and landscape-scenery more particularly, by copying 

 the elementary plate (PI. 1. sold by itself, under the title of Elementary Detaila for Pictorial 

 Map-drari'ing, for 3s. 6d.) of our Illustrations of Landscape- Gardening and Garden Archi- 

 tecture. He may afterwards draw figures and landscapes from nature, first through a gummed 

 pane of glass, and next on paper ; and finally, measure and draw from nature implements 

 and buildings, and map gardens, parks, and farms. 



On correctly applying, pronouncing, and spelling the names of plants ; on drawing plans 

 neatly, and being able to produce off hand a sketch of any thing ; on being able to measure 

 and value all kinds of country work ; above all, on good penmanship, spelling, and writing 

 a correct and intelligent letter, much of the success in life of a gardener depends. Without 

 possessing these qualities, by a regular course of education at school, or determining to 

 labour hard at self-instruction till he has possessed them, no young man in the present 

 improving age should attempt the profession. 



