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 To Keep Walnuts or Filberts, all the Year.

Gather them when they are ripe, with the green husks on, bury them in dry sand, and mix the filberts with them.

How to keep all sort of Flowers,

Gather them on a very fine clear day, at twelve o'clock; have ready a box and, a little writing-sand, place a layer of sand, then a layer of flowers, and so on alternately, till the box is full; close the box, that no air can get in.

To dry Artichoaks red.

Boil your artichoaks in water till you see they are soft; then take them out, and pound some cochineal very fine, and mix in fresh water, and boil them again a quarter of an hour; then dry them in bags for a quarter of an hour.

To keep Walnuts all the Year.

Take your walnuts full ripe, and peel them; then dry them well in the sun for a week or more, rub them often with a cloth till you see no mould on them; then keep them in a bag, in a dry place, and when you want any for a dessert, crack and peel them quite clean, but take care that you keep the nut whole, or in quarters; then put them in some spring water, as warm as you may bear your finger in; let them stand three or four hours, then put them in cold spring water, and let them stand all night; the next day, when you go to set your dessert, put them in glasses, and they will be crisp and fine as when fresh gathered.

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