LAVENDER INCENSE.
When you strip the flowers from your lavender sticks for making your sachets, save all the stalks, for, properly treated, they will provide the means of adding a delicious scent to your rooms during the winter. After stripping off the blooms, cut the stalks in lengths of about five inches and tie them rather loosely in little bundles. Then fill a jar with a saturated solution of saltpetre and place the stalks in the jar. Leave them to soak for a week or ten days. Then remove from the jar and hang the bundles where they can drain slowly. When dry storo till required. To perfume a room, place a stick in an incense burner or fireproof saucer and apply a match. The stalk will smoulder very slowly and give off a delightful perfume. Incenso burners aro artistic in the opaque grey glass.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18941, 12 February 1925, Page 13
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