A new system of practical domestic economy.

Date:
1828
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    the coldest day in winter, nothing more is necessary than to take them out, wash them in fair water, and hold them before a gentle fire, when they will open as if in all their vernal bloom. As the flowering of bulbous roots is always an agreeable decoration of the dressing-room in win- ter, it may be amusing to state an easy method of encouraging it rapidly, even in the coldest weather. Take three ounces of nitre, one ounce of common salt, half an ounce of potash, half an ounce of sugar, and dissolve them in a pint of rain-water. Keep your glasses near the fire. Change the water every ten or twelve days; and each time put in about half a tea-spoonfui of this mixture. It must not be forgotten that the perfumes of -ornamental flowers, when growing, will be increased, as well as their beauty, by affording as much sun and air as possible, and also by being careful always to set them out under genial showers. literally sending them to a watering-place. An elegant mode of combining the odours of different flowers is by preserving the leaves in vases, or China jars, in the form of a pot pourri, as the French term it; for which fine perfume, the following is a genuine recipe. Take one pound of orange-flowers and common rose-leaves, half a pound each of the leaves of red pinks, marjorum and myrtle; the leaves of musk roses, thyme, la- vender, rosemary, sage, camomile, melilot, hyssop, sweet basil, and balm, two ounces of each ; two or three handfuls of jessamine flowers, a large hand- ful of lemon rinds, cut as thin as possible; the same quantity of those of small green oranges, and fifteen or twenty laurel leaves. Put them all into a well leaded earthen jar, with half a pound of bay salt, and stir the whole carefully with a