GROWN WHILE YOU WAIT

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 May 1931, Page 8

GROWN WHILE YOU WAIT

)] ■ " • y A SUNLIGHT APPARATUS , . rr -.V 1 ' 1 ’ “ J. Viscount Fitzalan, of threatens to tivg the famous <?qxijurer who produced lovely rqses from 9 his flat for the beneftt of his q.um--7 ehces. He has discovered the; ’’ of how to grow flowers ‘‘while you ? wait,” for the delight of Ju? family 2 and friends. . He has had a sunlight apparatus iffstalled ip. the cellar of his greenhouses e in the grounds of his mansion, Cumv berland Lodge, which stands in th© Home Park, at Windsor, not far from , the Castle. i There, by the use of violet rays and .. IQOO candle-power arc lamps equal to strong sunlight,, he can make his j flowers attain'in a few'hours a pitch 3 of perfection which nature, unaided, 1 could only hope to achieve within a 5 few weeks. When Lady Fitzalan wants special . floral decorations for “her dinner table, > she has only to order them a few I hours beforehand—and there they : are! - - - t She may ask for daffodils, jphe ; i * th ® greenhouses may SisW : hard, long, bulby green stalks which ; the average gardeher would know .! would take about a week before they f were in bloom. Lady Fitzalan’s gardener, however can execute fheoKier blissfully. He has only to take a few of the boxes to the cellar,' turn on the lamps, leave them for three or four hours, and—there you are The green, swollen heads will be in radiant yellow blossom ready to adorn the dinner-table. ’ ' ' s