HOW TO PRESERVE FLOWEES.
Flowers may be preserved in a fresh state for a considerable time by keeping them in a moist atmosphere. Those who love to see plenty of freßh flowers in their sitting-rooms will be gratified by adopting the following plan : —Pour water into a flat porcelain or glass dish. Set a vase of flowers in the dish, and over it place a bell glass with its rim in the water. The air which surrounds the flowers, being confined beneaththe bell glass, is kept continually moist with the water which rose with it in the form of vapour. As fast as the water is condensed it runs down the sides of the bell glass back into the dish ; and if means were taken to inclose the water on the outside of the bell glass, so as to prevent its evaporating into the air of the sittingroom, the atmosphere around the flowers would remain continually damp. Those who wish to " linger on the beauty" of a rare flower or bouquet will be repaid by this experiment. It can be tried on a small scale by inverting a tumbler over a rosebud in a saucer of water.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1868, 19 February 1880, Page 2
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197HOW TO PRESERVE FLOWEES. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1868, 19 February 1880, Page 2
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