Keeping Flowers For a Year!
A METHOD of koeping cut flowers alive for weeks or months has been found at last. By it flowers that would ordinhrily have faded overnight have actually been made to last for a whole year. The discoverer is Professor Carl D. Laßue, of Michigan University. First the flowers are'sterilised with quarter-strength bromine water for two to ten minutes. They are then placed in agar —a stiff, semi-transparent substance, very similar to jelly—containing sugar and the mineral salts essential for the nourishment of the plants. All expectations were surpassed when the process was first tried out. The flowers not only kept fresh, but actually grew neve parts. Roots developed at the bottom of the stems and, most surprising of all, new plants were formed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23157, 1 October 1938, Page 5 (Supplement)
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128Keeping Flowers For a Year! New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23157, 1 October 1938, Page 5 (Supplement)
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