FLOWERS OF EGYPTIAN GRAVES.
The oldest herbarium in the world is to found in the Egyptologist Museum at Cairo. It consists of a large number of wreaths and garlands of flowers, collected together from ancient Egyptian graves. These floral remains are practically all in a well-preserved condition. In most of the flowers those parts which have been protected by an outer covering are, in spite of their extreme delicacy, perfectly iutact, while their colours have been preserved in a remarkable manner ; it has even been found that some of the water melons, by immersion in water, ihowed that they still retain possession of their green colouring matter. The most interesting feature of these collections is their great age. Some of them were immured in sarcophagi so far back as 2500 b.o.
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Press, Volume LII, Issue 9272, 25 November 1895, Page 5
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