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Carmine is to be temper’d in your Shell with Gum-Water j and adding a 
little Spirits of Hartftiorn, whcnrofCCHbr the pale Colour, it gives it a very 
pleafant Bloom for Flowers. 
Sap-Green, Gamboge, and Indian Ink, are only to be-dUuted with fm 
Water. 
The Colour is to be extrafted from the French Berries, by breaking them a 
. little and pouring boiling Water on therti, adding a littk Allum. 
The other Colours muft be ground fine on a Stone, with Gum-Water pro- 
portion’d to their Quality. 
Lake, Pruffian Blue and Indico, being liable to crack, a little Sugar- Candy, 
diffblv’d in weak Gum- Water, is preventive to that Inconvenicncy. 
Gum-Arabic is what is ufed : 'Tis neceflary to chufe the clearefl: it being 
very effential to the Beauty of the Colours. 
The Pencils arc thofe of Camels Hair. The youngefi: Praifritroaer need, 
hardly be infontiM, rhat it is Beft to chufe thofe that taper to one and a fine 
Point, without being fubjed to fplit at the Ends. For painting Flowets, th^, 
are bell of a moderate Length in the Hair; 
If the Colours fhould happen not to work fnsciy, occafim/d by 
Greafinefe of the Paper, a little pf thc-Gallof an the latter 
^ipieferafale, will gre^y affift the Freedom of the PendL * , , ^ 
