LIVES OF FLOWERS
LENGTHENING THEIR DAYS Hints to lengthen the lives of flowers are always useful, especially at times when thorp is a scarcity. Never put flowers near tho windows. Glass draws the heat, will cause tho water to evaporate, also tho natural moisturo in the leaves and stems. If you can get ice, drop a cube of ice into your flower-vases; if you can not, place the vases in tho coolest part of the room, and always remove them at. night, placed in deep buckets of water, to the coolest part of the house. Change the'water every day, and twice a day for zinnias, peonies and roses, as those flowers like long drinks. Flowers of the lily tribo should not be given more than eight inches of water, or the stems get water-logged and then the petals go soft and transparent. Finally, directly you get them homo from the shop snip the bottoms of tho stems and put them into a bucket or sink full of water for an hour or two before you attempt to arrange them.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23274, 17 February 1939, Page 4
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