Acorns can be made in the following manner. Procure some natural
acorn-cups (which are to be found in great quantities in the autumn),
choose such cups only as are perfectly sound; then pierce two holes
through the bottom of the cup, pass a piece of fine wire through the
holes, leaving the two ends long enough to be twisted into a stalk; if
the stalk is to be exposed, it must be covered with skiver and made fast
with Shaw’s liquid glue. The most correctly-formed acorn tops are those
turned in wood, which can be firmly placed in the cup by the aid of the
liquid glue; this completes the fully-formed acorn.