GARDEN POT-POURRI
The following rec : pe for pot-pourri is simple and inexpensive. Put into a china jar with a lid, sun-dried rose leaves, lavender flowers, rosemary flowers, the red part of clove carnations, while jasmine flowers, syringa flowers, knotted marjoram, leaves of scented geraniums, lemon-scented thyme, mint, southernwood, balm of Gilead and bay leaf. A little ground allspice and ground or grated nutmeg should bo added, and a lemon stuck full of cloves dried in the oven and then pounded or broken up. Put tho ingredients in layers with pounded bay salt between, then cover close. When the pot is uncovered the perfume is very fine and lasts for years. If tlie ingredients cannot all be obtained afc once, put them in as you get them, always sprinkling in salt with every new aritcle.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21296, 24 September 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)
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134GARDEN POT-POURRI New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21296, 24 September 1932, Page 6 (Supplement)
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