A dictionary of modern gardening - University Library

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If a press cannot easily be had, books moved, and the plants examined. I
may be employed. Next, some quires not sufficiently dried, they mav again
of unsized blotting paper must be pro- be replaced in the same manner for a
vided. The specimens, when taken day or two. In drying plants with a
out of the tin box, must be carefully hot smoothing iron, they must be placed
spread on a piece of pasteboard, co- within several sheets of blotting paper,
vered with a single sheet of the paper, and ironed till they become sufficiently
quite dry; then three or four sheets of dry. This method answers best for dr\-the
same paper must be placed above ing succulent and mucilaginous plants,
the plant, to imbibe the moisture as it When properly dried, the specimens
is pressed out. It is then to be put into should be placed in sheets of writing
the press. As many plants as the press paper, and may be slightly fastened bv
will hold may be piled up in this manner.
At first, they ought to be pressed
gently. After being pressed for about
twenty-four hours, the plants ought to
be examined, that any leaves or petals
making the top and bottom of the stalk
pass through a slip of the paper, cut for
the purpose. The name of the genus
and species should be written down,
the place where it was found, nature of
which have been folded may be spread the soil, and the season of the year,
out, and dry sheets of paper laid over These specimens may be collected into
them. They may now be replaced in
the press, and a greater degree of pressure
applied. The press ought to stand
near a fire, or in the sunshine. After
remaining two days in this situation,
they should be again examined, and
dry sheets of paper be laid over them.
The pressure ought then to be considerably
increased. After remaining
Then the sand must be carefully re- |
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genera, orders, and classes, and titled
and preserved in a portfolio or cabinet.
The method of preserving many of the
cryptogamous plants is more difficult,
on account of the greater quantity of
moisture which they contain, and the
greater delicacy of their texture." Encyc.
Am.
HERBARY was a department of the
three days longer in the press, the garden formerly much more cultivated
plants may be taken out, and such as than at present, when the more potent
are sufficiently dry may be put in a dry medicinal plants of hotter climates are
sheet of writing paper. Those plants so easily procurable. The following is
which are succulent may require more a list of the tenants of the herbary, the
pressure, and the blotting paper to be appropriate cultivation of which will be
found under their particular titles :
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again renewed. Plants which dry very
quickly ought to be pressed with con- Angelica.
Marigold.
siderable force when lirst put into the Balm.
Marjoram.
press; and, if delicate, the blotting Basil.
Mint.
paper should be changed every day.
When the stem is woody, it may be
Blessed Thistle.
Borage.
Pennyroyal.
Peppermint.
thinned with a knife, and, if the flower Burnet.
Purslane.
be thick or globular, as the thistle, one Caraway
Rue.
side of it may be cut away, as all that Chamomile
Sage.
is necessary, in a specimen, is to pre- Chervil.
Savory.
serve the character of the class, order, Coriander.
Scurvy Grass.
genus, and species. Plants may be Dill.
Tansy.
dried in a box of sand in a more expe- Hyssop.
Tarragon.
ditious manner ; and this method preserves
the colour of some plants better.
Lavender.
Liquorice.
Thyme.
Wormwood.
The specimens, after being pressed for HERBERTIApu/f?ie//a. Half-hardy
ten or twelve hours, must be laid within
a sheet of blotting paper. The box
must contain an inch deep of fine dry
bulb. Seed. Sandv loam and peat.
HERB-GRACE. 'See Rue.
HERCULES-CLUB. Xanthoxylum
sand on which the sheet is to be placed,
and then covered with sand an inch
clava Herculis.
H E R M A N N I A . Forty species,
thick ; another sheet may then be de- Green-house evergreen shrubs. Cutposited
in the same manner, and so on, tings. Light rich soil
till the box be full. The box must be H E R M I N I U M . Three species.
placed near a fire for two or three days. Hardy and half-hardy orchids Divisidn.
Chalk and peat