FOR WINTER BEAUTY
PRESERVE FOUR AUTUMN LEAVES. If you wish to preserve leaves, try the following: Melt some paraffin wax, just hot enough to keep fluid. The leaves should be dipped in this mixture one at a time, held by the stalks and moved about for a moment to remove the air bubbles. Have the leaves as fresh as possible and quite free from moisture. The easiest way, however* is to stand your sprays or branches of leaves in a long, narrow jar containing equal parts of glycerine and water. They should be allowed to stand in this for a few weeks, the jar being filled as they slow-, ly absorb the liquid. When they have absorbed all they want, the leaves will last for months. It' is wise, however, to gather the leaves when they have first taken on their autumn colours and are still full of sap.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1939, Page 10
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149FOR WINTER BEAUTY Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1939, Page 10
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