Wild flowers of Tasmania, or, Chatty rambles afloat and ashore, amidst the seaweeds, ferns, and flowering plants : with a complete list of indigenous ferns, and instructions for their cultivation / by S. Hannaford.

  • Hannaford, S. (Samuel)
Date:
1866
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Wild flowers of Tasmania, or, Chatty rambles afloat and ashore, amidst the seaweeds, ferns, and flowering plants : with a complete list of indigenous ferns, and instructions for their cultivation / by S. Hannaford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAP. I. leathern strap around the shoulders; and we have, too, a small iron spud, with which to root up small plants entire without mutilation. The tin box holds a large number of plants, and when slightly moistened they will retain their freshness until leisure is found to lay them out to dry. A specimen of each plant should be put into a vase for examination, and the remainder placed between sheets of porous paper with layers between, and then put between two or more well- seasoned hoards, damped, to prevent their warp- ing by moisture, and secured by strong leathern straps with buckles. After a day or two, the papers may be changed, to hasten the process of drying, and to prevent mouldiness; and this change has one other advantage, that it admits of altering the position of leaves which have become curled, or flowers which are not distinct before they are too set. When dry, each specimen, or all the specimens of the same species, should be placed between a sheet of white paper, of any size the collector may fancy; this again into others of a different colour, to denote genera, and again all the genera into others, which denote the Natural Order; for the chaos which exists otherwise, when
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