There are sects, in India that will only drink water with a cloth fastened over the mouth. This ie to prevent the killing of animakulic. These sects employ a servant to beat a loud gong while obey are eating. Tins is to prevent the hearing of profane remarks from passers-by. If a dog brush against them they phuigo forthwith, clothes and all, into a bath. Black is fortunately the rarest color in flowers, hut floriculturists are always seeking to attain it, as a mile unsuccessfully. There is a black tulip in fiction, but not in, fact; and, as was shown at the last British National Dahlia Society’s exhibition. there is a dahlia which as very nearly black - . Soma years ago a French poppy was introduced which was so darkly purple that to call it black was a. pardonable exaggeration. Of familiar flowers, however, the pansy is the only one with which experimentalists have had complete success.
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Evening Star, Issue 18139, 1 December 1922, Page 7
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181Page 7 Advertisements Column 3 Evening Star, Issue 18139, 1 December 1922, Page 7
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