. Fig. 1.—Collecting box, pick, and press. and prevent the plants from blackening in drying. Two stout leather trunk straps may be used for strapping the press, additional holes being bored to permit adjustment to any desired capacity of the press. The type of trunk strap made of web or fiber, having a buckle with a flat corrugated tongue, is better than a leather strap, as it can be secured at any point in its length. Driers.—The best driers are those made of very heavy gray blot- ting paper, cut to llj by 16J inches. Felt carpet paper of the same size may be used, but it is less bibulous and
. Fig. 1.—Collecting box, pick, and press. and prevent the plants from blackening in drying. Two stout leather trunk straps may be used for strapping the press, additional holes being bored to permit adjustment to any desired capacity of the press. The type of trunk strap made of web or fiber, having a buckle with a flat corrugated tongue, is better than a leather strap, as it can be secured at any point in its length. Driers.—The best driers are those made of very heavy gray blot- ting paper, cut to llj by 16J inches. Felt carpet paper of the same size may be used, but it is less bibulous and proves less satisfactory in drying plants quickly. When plants are collected in quantity, pieces of corrugated strawboard of the same size as the driers will be found of great advantage, as by their use the press is so thoroughly venti- lated that only a single change of driers is required. They should
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