LEAF COLLECTING.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 3, 4 January 1908, Page 11

LEAF COLLECTING.

■*stIt Beonis necessary to collect something (Bay* an Australian daily), and some people are tired of photographs and. picture postcards. They don't like to kill things, aud are too old or dignified to climb trees after birds' eggs. To such persons leaf collecting offers a way of salvation. An album filled with well-pressed leaves ,will bear looking at again and again, while the naming and classification of them ■ft'ill provide occupation for many a dull half-hour. Leaf collecting possesses this- advantage over niost outdoor hobbies, that it may be pursued at all seasons and in any locality. The landscape may be flat and uninteresting, but the country must be bare indeed if the leaf collector cannot find some specimens. If the collector has friends abroad they will be only too glad to add to his collection, which will add greatly to its value and interest. The leaves should bo pressed between two sheets of blotting paper until quite dry, when they may be gummed on to the pages of any good scrap album.