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To Preserve Cut Flowers

Place a vase containing the cut flowers in the centre of a flat dish, into which a little water has been poured; invert a bell glass over the vase, so that the rim of the glass is covered by the water, thus forming an air-tight chamber. The air surrounding the flowers will be constantly moist, and will remain so as long as the supply of water in the dish is kept undiminished. We recommend those who love to see plenty of fresh flowers in their sittingrooms in dry weather, to adopt this plan. The experiment can be tried by inverting a tumbler over a rose-bud in a saucer of water.

If some charcoal has been previously steeped in the water, or a small piece of camphor dissolved, it will greatly assist in keeping the flowers fresh. Violets may be preserved for a long time by sticking them with short stems into a glass dish filled with damp silver-sand, and then inverting a tumbler over them. of oxide of iron, the flowers will become blue