THE BLACK TULIP.
Horticulturist Turns Fiction
Into Fact.
PROCESS OF DYEING SOIL,
(United Service.)
(Received 11.30 a.m.)
LONDON, February 7. The '-Black Tulip" of fiction will soon be a reality the "Daily Mail" reports, stating that a Nottinghamshire horticultural expert has produced green tulips by feeding the soil in which thev grew with harmless aniline dve. The stems sucked it up and transferred it to the blooms.
He says there is practicallv no limit to the variation of hues importable to the tulip by dyeing the earth in which the bulbs grow.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 33, 8 February 1929, Page 7
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