It is quite a pretty idea to take up and plant in a little flower-pot
The Four-leaved Clover.
Very frequently you may find a tuft bearing only the mystic number, and should it happen to have a five- or six-leaved clover in with the others, they will add to the luck.
If you possess one of these charmed plants, it is said “good luck” will always be near at hand.
Besides the foregoing directions for the preservation of flowers, plants, etc., there are numerous other methods, which, although not experimentally verified by the writer, are no doubt as worthy of a place here as any of the former.
The following recipes have been culled from various old papers, books, etc.
Some Old-fashioned Methods of Preserving Flowers.
The first of these ways is more properly intended for botanical collections, and is often resorted to by collectors of rare blossoms. It consists in placing