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To Turn White Flowers Red

The juice of the Virginian pokeweed sprinkled on the white hyacinth will turn it red. The same effect is produced on many other white flowers. at the rate of 1/2 pound to 100 pounds of sand.

Care must be taken not to add too much stearine, as it would sink to the bottom and injure the flowers. The vessel, with its cover on and the gauze beneath it, is then turned upside down, and, the bottom being removed, the flowers to be operated upon are carefully placed on the gauze and the sand gently poured in, so as to cover the flowers entirely, the leaves being thus prevented from touching each other. The vessel is then put into a hot place, such, for instance, as the top of a baker's oven, where it is left for 18 hours.

The flowers thus become dried, and they retain their natural colors. The vessel still remaining bottom upwards, the lid is taken off, and the sand runs away through the gauze, leaving the flowers uninjured. 1838. Τo Preserve Flowers in Water. Mix a little saltpetre or carbonate of soda with water, and it will preserve the flowers for 2 weeks. 1839. Το Restore Faded Flowers.

Faded flowers may be generally restored by immersing them half-way up their stems in very hot water, and allowing them to remain in it until it cools, or they have recovered.

They must then be removed, the coddled portion of the stems cut off, and placed in clean cold water. In this way a great number of faded flowers may be restored, but there are some of the more delicate kinds on which it proves useless.