be made a source of pleasure, amusement, and instruction. The elegant shape of their graceful fronds renders them useful and beautiful objects for pencil and water-colour drawings, for photographic pictures, and for the adornment of tables, vases, flower-stands, and other pieces of ornamental furniture with leather-work in imitation of carved oak. The fronds may also be pressed and dried, and then fastened to sheets of cartridge paper bound together to form a Fern Album. Some sheets of stout blotting-paper and pasteboard, two or three flat boards, and a heavy weight or two, will furnish all that is necessary to constitute the press, in which the fronds should remain for two or three weeks at least. When dry, they should be fastened to the pages with little strips of paper gummed transversely across the stems, and the order, botanical name, English name, and the spot and date, when and where it was gathered, should be carefully registered in any convenient corner in this

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ORDER

BOT. NAME

COM. NAME

WHERE GATHERED
DATE.

Osmundacea.

Osmunda Regalis.

Royal Fern.
Killarney, Ireland.
August 29th, 1862.

How many memories of the vanished past would such a collection serve to conjure up! What pleasant walks and happy hours spent with loved and valued friends would it recall to our remembrance! And if those memories should be tinged with a sweet sadness, when through their magic power the eye can almost see some once familiar scene that we may never again re-visit, and the ear almost hear the welcome accents of some well-known voice whose tones are hushed for ever, they would be none the less pleasant; but the book, that had spoken to the heart of things that were, would become a Home Pet" that we should prize more highly, and treasure more closely, after each communion with the withered fronds that lie between its pages.

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