FLOWERS IN SUMMER

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21280, 25 February 1939, Page 11

FLOWERS IN SUMMER

You may be wilting in the heat, but so are your flowers, comments an overseas writer. While you won’t die. the flowers, unless thej get some pretty prompt attention, will. Here are one or two hints that will lengthen their lives.

1. Never put flowers near the windows. Glass draws the heat,’will cause the water to evaporate, also the natural moisture in the leaves and stems.

2. If you can get ice, drop a cube of ice into your flower-vases; if you can’t, place the vases in the coolest part of the room, and always remove them at night placed in deep buckets of water to the coolest part of the house.

3. Change the water every day, and twice a day for zinnias, peonies, and roses, as these flowers like long drinks. 4. Flowers of the Lily tribe should not be given more than eight inches of water, or the stems get water-logged, and then the petals go soft and transparent. 5. Finally, directly you get them home from the shop snip the bottoms of the stems and put them into a bucket or sink full of water for an hour or two before you attempt to arrange them.

FASHIONS FOR THE NURSERY Ideas for the up-to-date nursery include pale blue, pink, or white feeders with sleeves, tying round the neck in the usual way, states a London writer. These are designed for the baby who feeds himself in a high chair. An electric drying cabinet that looks like a minute refrigerator and which can be run off the electric light, is intended to solve problems in the nursery of a flat where there Is no space to hang out washing to dry in the open. Practical, simple draperies of gingham or flowered cotton are slipped on and off the latest type of basket cot on a wicker stand. A pale pink rubber mattress has minute air cushions. A new type of inexpensive coloured blanket is being used in the night nurseries of both Lord Howard’s daughters-in-law.