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and flowers, but as we have not registered the method of using 
it, we will now do so. The directions of M. de Droste are to 
“dissolve camphor to saturation in alcohol, adding the former 
until it remains solid at the bottom of the latter; a sufficient 
quantity of rain or river water is then to have the alcoholic so- 
lution added to it, in the proportion of four drops to one ounce 
of w ater. As the camphor comes in contact with the water, it 
will form a thin solid film, which is to be well beaten up with 
the water: for a short time the camphor will float in the water 
in small flocculi, but will ultimately combine with the fluid and 
disappear. Plants which have been removed from the earth, 
and have suffered by a journey or otherwise, should be plunged 
into this camphorated water, so that they may be entirely co- 
vered : in about two, or at most three hours, the contracted 
leaves will expand again; the young faded and dependent shoots 
w ill erect themselves, and the dried bark will become smooth 
and full. That being effected, the plant is to be placed in good 
earth, copiously watered with rain or river water, and protected 
from the too powerful action of the sun, until the roots have 
taken good hold of the ground. AVhen large plants, as trees, 
are to be revived, their roots are to be plunged into the cam- 
phorated water for three hours ; the trunk and even the head 
of the tree being frequently wetted with the same water, so as 
to retain them in a properly moistened state. But it is always 
best, if possible, to immerse the whole of the plant. Shoots, 
sprigs, slips, and roots, are to be treated in a similar manner. 
If plants thus treated are not restored in four hours, their death 
may be considered as certain, for they cannot be recalled to life 
by any artificial means. They should, consequently, never be 
left more than four hours in the camphorated bath ; because 
the exciting action of the camphor, when it is continued for a 
longer period, may injure the plants, instead of doing good to 
them. It is not necessary to say that the final prosperity of 
the plants, thus re-animated by the camphorated water, must 
depend upon the particular properties of the former, the state 
of their roots, and the pains that are taken with them. The 
camphor produces no other effect than to restore life to plants 
nearly dead : after that, all proceeds according to the ordinary 
laws, and their ultimate state must be left to art and nature.” 
It should not be forgotten that a hand-glass placed over faded 
