. Godey's lady's book . Take raw cotton, and make a tight little ballabout the size of a pea; fasten this to the endof a wire nine inches long. Let the top of thislittle cotton ball be larger than the part whereit joins the wire. Cover this cotton with greenpapers, and pass black silk threads, like finenet-work, over the paper. Then fasten theVOL. LXIV.—41 petals round the heart, and cover base andstem with green. NARCISSUS. The heart of the Narcissus is made like thatof the Ranunculus ; the pistils are pink andwhite instead of yellow. The petals are one inchand a half wide, and the wire is co
. Godey's lady's book . Take raw cotton, and make a tight little ballabout the size of a pea; fasten this to the endof a wire nine inches long. Let the top of thislittle cotton ball be larger than the part whereit joins the wire. Cover this cotton with greenpapers, and pass black silk threads, like finenet-work, over the paper. Then fasten theVOL. LXIV.—41 petals round the heart, and cover base andstem with green. NARCISSUS. The heart of the Narcissus is made like thatof the Ranunculus ; the pistils are pink andwhite instead of yellow. The petals are one inchand a half wide, and the wire is covered withrose-colored silk. Make the petals like those. of the Pansy, of white zephyr. Five of thesepetals form the flower. The base is larger thanthat of the Ranunculus, and the stem of thesame length. Cover both with green. PRIMROSE. This flower has four petals of white mould should be one inch and a half veins are in cherry color, and are madelike the violet veins in the yellow petals of the
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