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To Prevent Mouldiness

The best preventive is any of the essential oils, as the oil of lavender, cloves, peppermint, &c.

Russia leather, which is scented with the tar of the birch tree, is not subject to mouldiness, and books bound in it will even prevent mouldiness in other books bound in calf, near which they happen to lie. the solution be allowed to stand a few days, being stirred frequently, it will be all the better, and will resist dampness twice as well as glue made with water.