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PLORAL DECORA TLOXS: 
flowering Almond.' Where it will do well the English 
Ivy is a very desirable and beautiful plant, and the same 
may be said of the Holly and the Rhododendron. 
This list is far from being a complete one, nor is it 
intended to refer to those larger shrubs and trees which 
are properly employed in cemetery embellishment, but 
it will serve to indicate, to a; great extent, the kinds of 
plants that are suitable and desirable for decoration in 
close proximity to the graves. 
PREPARING SKELETON LEAVES. 
The hollowing method of preparing skeleton leaves is 
simple, expeditious and reliable:-^-First dissolve four ounces 
of common washing-soda in a quart of boiling water, then 
add two ounces of slacked quick-lime, and boil for about 
fifteen minutes. Allow this solution to cool ; afterwards 
pour‘off all the liquor into a clean saucepan. When the 
solution is at boiling point, place the leaves carefully in 
the pan, and boil the whole, together for an hour. Boil¬ 
ing water ought to be added occasionally, but sufficient 
only to replace that lost by evaporation. The epidermis 
and parenchyma of some leaves will more readily separate 
