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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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The Herbarium - Collecting, Arranging and Preserving Plants, Lichens, Mosses and More - With Practical Instructions to Assist the Amateur Home Natural

The Herbarium - Collecting, Arranging and Preserving Plants, Lichens, Mosses and More - With Practical Instructions to Assist the Amateur Home Natural

Coultas, Harland

Paperback

Young Adult Nonfiction

ISBN10: 1528708148
ISBN13: 9781528708142
Publisher: Read Country Books
Published: Dec 24 2018
Pages: 52
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.12 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

A short Victorian handbook on making a herbarium of your own: where to look, what to gather, how to press and mount what you find, and how to arrange the finished sheets.

The naturalist Harland Coultas, who died in 1877, wrote for readers who wanted to work outdoors rather than in a laboratory. The Herbarium brings together the botanical chapters of his The Home Naturalist, issued in London in the 1870s, and sets out the whole business of a private collection: where and when to find specimens, how to dry and mount them without spoiling colour or shape, how to name what you have, and how to order the sheets by the natural system of botany. A closing chapter takes up the flowerless plants - the ferns, mosses and lichens that most beginners' guides leave out.

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