. Blakelee's industrial cyclopedia, a simple practical guide ... A ready reference and reservoir of useful information. More than two hundred illustrations. double. Finish off when the pieces are put on with a small piece ofwax, and join your flower to the leaves. To make yellow ones, proceed in thesame manner, veining them with the dark yellow paint. Moss for Moss Rose Bnds in Wax.—Go to the woods and findsome old log on which has grown moss with a fern like appearance. Removeit carefully and^place in the basket that you have brought along to hold your forest treasures. When you reach home pl
. Blakelee's industrial cyclopedia, a simple practical guide ... A ready reference and reservoir of useful information. More than two hundred illustrations. double. Finish off when the pieces are put on with a small piece ofwax, and join your flower to the leaves. To make yellow ones, proceed in thesame manner, veining them with the dark yellow paint. Moss for Moss Rose Bnds in Wax.—Go to the woods and findsome old log on which has grown moss with a fern like appearance. Removeit carefully and^place in the basket that you have brought along to hold your forest treasures. When you reach home place it in a pan of water, carefullyremoving all the dirt. Then with small scissors detach the pieces (an inch longif you can get them that way) and place in an old book. Smooth the moss out, and do not place more than four pieces in one place,leaving three or four leaves between each time you put in moss. When done,lay your book away with a heaNy weight on it. In five or six days you can re-move the moss and place in a small box among your wax materials. I haveprepared moss this way, and found it very nice. If you buy it you will find FIG. I.—PERIWINKLE PATTERN; The Periwinkle.—^Materials : Steel cutting pin, one bottle crimson paint(dry), one package white wax, one spool green cotton wound wire, one bottlegreen paint (dark). These materials will make a cluster of periwinkles, a clusterbf white and a cluster of crimson verbenas, leaving enough for a handsome spravof ivy and tea roses. Have ready a cup of water and a clean sheet of writing paper. Cut out ofstiff paper or very thin pasteboard a pattern like fig. i. Then lay a sheet of dyo WAX FLOWER MAKING. wax down smooth on the writing paper. Wet the point of the pin in water, andcarefully cut out exactly by the pattern. Three the size and shape of fig. i will be enough. Then wet the ball partof the pin in the water, shake off the drops; then place your periwinkle inthe left hand and roll the curved edges cu
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