If you have a strip of land, do not throw away suds. Both ashes and
suds are good manure for bushes and young plants.
When a white Navarino bonnet becomes soiled, rip it in pieces, and
wash it with a sponge and soft water. While it is yet damp, wash it
two or three times with a clean sponge dipped into a strong saffron
tea, nicely strained. Repeat this till the bonnet is as dark a straw
color as you wish. Press it on the wrong side with a warm iron, and it
will look like a new Leghorn.
About the last of May, or the first of June, the little millers, which
lay moth-eggs begin to appear. Therefore brush all your woollens, and
pack them away in a dark place covered with linen. Pepper, red-cedar
chips, tobacco,--indeed, almost any strong spicy smell,--is good to
keep moths out of your chests and drawers. But nothing is so good as
camphor. Sprinkle your woollens with camphorated spirit, and scatter
pieces of camphor-gum among them, and you will never be troubled with
moths. Some people buy camphor-wood trunks, for this purpose; but they
are very expensive, and the gum answers just as well.
The first young leaves of the common currant-bush, gathered as soon as
they put out, and dried on tin, can hardly be distinguished from green
tea.
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