THE MAKING OF POT-POURRI 167 



to go into their preparation jars. After making shift 

 for some years with various odds and ends of jars, 

 the best of them being a big bhie and grey German 

 one and some South ItaHan oil jars, I had some 

 made on purpose at Doulton's pottery. The material 

 has to be firmly and evenly pressed, as it lies in the 

 jar layer on layer, and as this is difficult to arrange 

 in any vessel of bulging form, my jars were made 

 quite cylindrical, and they answer admirably. They 

 stand twenty-two inches high and have a diameter 

 over all of ten inches, and have flat flanged lids with 

 loop handles. They are of the strong buff stone- 

 ware, like salt-jars, glazed inside and out. In order 

 to keep the material well pressed down, I had some 

 leaden discs cast of such a diameter as to go easily 

 inside ; these are five-eighths of an inch thick, and 

 weigh fourteen pounds each, and have also handles to 

 lift by. 



The Rose petals are thrown in, about two good 

 handfuls at a time, and are made to lie close together 

 by gentle ramming, and have a thick sprinkling (not 

 quite a covering) of the salt mixture. This is of 

 equal parts bay salt and kitchen salt ; the bay salt, 

 which comes in hard lumps, being roughly pounded, 

 so that the greater part of it is in pieces the size 

 of peas or smaller. The Rose leaves are put in as 

 before, two handfuls or so, rammed, salted, and so 

 on till all are in, then the leaden weight goes in, 

 and the jar is covered till the next supply is ready. 



