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To Preserve Plants

Lay over one of the boards two or three sheets of the paper described in the last receipt. On the uppermost sheet spread out the specimen to be preserved, unfolding its parts so as to give it as natural an appearance as possible, laying out the leaves and flowers with particular care. Over the specimen thus disposed of place several sheets of paper; on the uppermost sheet spread out another specimen, and so proceed till all the plants intended to be preserved are laid down and having put over the whole some more sheets of paper, place a board over them with the weights upon it, which may be a number of clean bricks, if iron or lead weights cannot conveniently be procured. As some plants are delicate and flexible, and others comparatively thick and hard, the former class will require less weight to be placed over them, and the latter considerably more.