. Circular. Agriculture; Agriculture -- United States. DIEECTIONS FOR COLLECTING PLANTS. 31 buckle with a fiat tongue and corrugated edge is more satisfactory than a knither strap. SoUd board presses have been used, but they are more hkely to cause a sweating and blackening of the plants on the outside of the bundle. SPECIAL DIRECTIONS FOR PREPARING AND DRYING PLANTS. Herhaceous plants.—All herbaceous specimens (i. e., those without a woody stem) that are not over 3^ feet tall should be collected entire, including root, stem, leaves, flowers, and fruit when j=?>^ Fig. 4.—a speci
. Circular. Agriculture; Agriculture -- United States. DIEECTIONS FOR COLLECTING PLANTS. 31 buckle with a fiat tongue and corrugated edge is more satisfactory than a knither strap. SoUd board presses have been used, but they are more hkely to cause a sweating and blackening of the plants on the outside of the bundle. SPECIAL DIRECTIONS FOR PREPARING AND DRYING PLANTS. Herhaceous plants.—All herbaceous specimens (i. e., those without a woody stem) that are not over 3^ feet tall should be collected entire, including root, stem, leaves, flowers, and fruit when j=?>^ Fig. 4.—a specimen placed between thin sheets, showing tlie metliod of folding a tall plant before pressing. Wlien the stem of a plant is too long to go into the sheets it should be folded into 12 or 15 inch lengths, beginning at the root end to fold (fig. 4). The folds may be held together by strips of thick paper about 1 by 3 inches, with a slit in the middle, the folded ends being inserted through the slit. When herbaceous specimens are over 3J feet tall it is rarely necessary to collect the whole plant. The height of the plant should be noted on the folder or in a notebook and placed on the label of the plant when it is mounted. Many tall specimens are too thick at the base to be collected entu"e. In such cases a piece nil-. 12*;]. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Bureau of Plant Industry. Washington, D. C. : U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry
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