2. Linseed oil, 2 pounds ; alkanet, 3 ounces. Heat them together and macerate for six hours, then add resin, 2 ounces ; bees’ wax, 2 ounces. Boiled oil may be advantageously used instead of linseed oiL 3. Brazil-wood (ground) ; water suffi- cient ; add a little alum and potash. BoiL 4. Logwood, 1 part ; water, 8 parts. Make a decoction and apply it to the wood ; when dry, give it two or three coats of the following varnish : dragon's blood, 1 one part ; spirits of wine, 20 parts. Mix. MAHOGANY FURNITURE, to Clean. — Three pennyworth of alkanet root, a pint of Unseed oil ; two pennyworth of rose-pink ; to stand in a vessel all night. Rub some of this mix- ture over the table or chairs, and let it stay an hour ; then rub it weU off with a linen cloth, and it will leave a beauti- ful gloss. MAHOGANY, to Take Stains Out of. — Mix 6 ozs. of spirits of salts, and % oz. salt of lemons together. Drop a tittle on the stains, and rub it with a cork till the stains disappear. Then wash off immediately with cold Welter. MANDRAKE.— This plant is not so abundant in England as in America. It is a valuable plant, but requires skill and care in its application as a remedy. It is purgative, deob- struent, antibitious, anthelmintic, hy- dragogue, &c. It is a sure purge, superior in some diseases to jalap. It is very useful in scrofula, in bilious, dyspeptic, and venereal affections. — See Robinson's Herbal. * MARBLE, to Clean. — Soap lees mixed with quick time, pretty thick, and applied for a day, then washed off with soap and water.— -Or muriatic acid diluted with water, taking care that it be not too strong. — Or soft soap, 1 lb. ; whiting, powdered, 1 lb. ; soda, 1 oz. ; MAR 247 MAR boil together for 20 minutes ; apply for 94 hours, wash off with clean water, and polish with a piece of felt, or coarse fiannpl — Iron stains on marble are re- moved by a mixture of lemon juice and sulphuric add ; apply for a few minutes and then rub with a soft doth. P. 72. MARBLE, Imitation of.-Make a solution of alum, and of half as much of the best glue as alum. Mix with one part whiting, or rather less, and 3 parts of well-baked plaster of Paris. It may be colour- by first staining the water. It sets nard. MARELE, to Polish.— Mix a quantity of the strongest soap-lees with quick-lime, to the consistence of milk, and lay it on the stone, &c. , for 24 hours, clean it afterwards with soap and water, and it will appear as new. MARIGOLDS. — Their virtues have been lost sight of. The juice, or a strong decoction, with (or without) a very small portion of spirits of wine, is a rare application for healing lacerations, bruises, cuts, both pain and bleeding being immediately arrested. By its use In severe wounds Erysipelas is prevented. It seldom leaves a cicatrix, or mark, be- hind it. It has a tendency to contract the mouths of the small arteries, when directly cut across, and where they have been slit longitudinally. The tincture may be purchased of rite Homaepathic Chemists, and largely diluted with water, it is a first-rate remedy. MARIGOLDS, to Cultivate. — Pull up all those plants, whose flowers are less double, as soon as they appear, that they may noj impregnate the others with their farina. Save the seeds from the largest and most double flowers. Sow the seeds in April in places where the plants are to remain. MARIGOLD CHEESE.

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2. Linseed oil, 2 pounds ; alkanet, 3 ounces. Heat them together and macerate for six hours, then add resin, 2 ounces ; bees’ wax, 2 ounces. Boiled oil may be advantageously used instead of linseed oil 3. Brazil-wood (ground) ; water sufficient ; add a little alum and potash. BoiL 4. Logwood, 1 part ; water, 8 parts. Make a decoction and apply it to the wood ; when dry, give it two or three coats of the following varnish : dragon's blood, 1 one part ; spirits of wine, 20 parts. Mix. MAHOGANY FURNITURE, to Clean. — Three pennyworth of alkanet root, a pint of linseed oil ; two pennyworth of rose-pink ; to stand in a vessel all night. Rub some of this mixture over the table or chairs, and let it stay an hour ; then rub it weU off with a linen cloth, and it will leave a beautiful gloss. MAHOGANY, to Take Stains Out of. — Mix 6 ozs. of spirits of salts, and % oz. salt of lemons together. Drop a tittle on the stains, and rub it with a cork till the stains disappear. Then wash off immediately with cold water. MANDRAKE.— This plant is not so abundant in England as in America. It is a valuable plant, but requires skill and care in its application as a remedy. It is purgative, deobstruent, antibilious, anthelmintic, hydragogue, &c. It is a sure purge, superior in some diseases to jalap. It is very useful in scrofula, in bilious, dyspeptic, and venereal affections. — See Robinson's Herbal. * MARBLE, to Clean. — Soap lees mixed with quick time, pretty thick, and applied for a day, then washed off with soap and water.— -Or muriatic acid diluted with water, taking care that it be not too strong. — Or soft soap, 1 lb. ; whiting, powdered, 1 lb. ; soda, 1 oz. ; MAR MAR boil together for 20 minutes ; apply for 24 hours, wash off with clean water, and polish with a piece of felt, or coarse flannel — Iron stains on marble are removed by a mixture of lemon juice and sulphuric add ; apply for a few minutes and then rub with a soft doth. P. 72. MARBLE, Imitation of.-Make a solution of alum, and of half as much of the best glue as alum. Mix with one part whiting, or rather less, and 3 parts of well-baked plaster of Paris. It may be coloured by first staining the water. It sets hard. MARBLE, to Polish.— Mix a quantity of the strongest soap-lees with quick-lime, to the consistence of milk, and lay it on the stone, &c. , for 24 hours, clean it afterwards with soap and water, and it will appear as new. MARIGOLDS. — Their virtues have been lost sight of. The juice, or a strong decoction, with (or without) a very small portion of spirits of wine, is a rare application for healing lacerations, bruises, cuts, both pain and bleeding being immediately arrested. By its use In severe wounds Erysipelas is prevented. It seldom leaves a cicatrix, or mark, behind it. It has a tendency to contract the mouths of the small arteries, when directly cut across, and where they have been slit longitudinally. The tincture may be purchased of the Homeopathic Chemists, and largely diluted with water, it is a first-rate remedy. MARIGOLDS, to Cultivate. — Pull up all those plants, whose flowers are less double, as soon as they appear, that they may not impregnate the others with their farina. Save the seeds from the largest and most double flowers. Sow the seeds in April in places where the plants are to remain. MARIGOLD CHEESE.

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