A COALIE—FLOWER FOR THE TABLE
The coalie is the newest thing in table decoration. This is how you can grow one: Mix a small bottle of red ink with three tablespoons of household ammonia, two tablespoons of salt, three packets of a special powder blue, and three tablespoons of cold water. Place four or five pieces of coal, about the size of small oranges, in a glass bowl, and pour the mixture over them. If you stand the bowl in a warm place, and add a tablespoon of water and a teaspoon of salt every second day you will soon have a bowl fuli of pretty coalie-flower —a coral-like growth.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 9 January 1940, Page 6
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