Stains from Irises
Dear Aunt Daisy, Here is my chance to repay some of the help I’ve so often had from your Listener pages. This morning I noticed that some of the blooms in a bowl of purple irises Mad faded, and their juice
had dripped on to an embroidered mat, making two great ugly stains. I tried cold water first, but the marks declined to budge, so I pegged the mat out, dripping wet, in hot sunlight, to dry, before trying some other remedy. When I went to take in the mat the stains had lost quite half their density! Two more repe-titions-and now you’d never know anything had been wrong. I hope this may catch the eye of any fellow iris-lover who has had a similar misfortune.
M.E.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 444, 26 December 1947, Page 23
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131Stains from Irises New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 444, 26 December 1947, Page 23
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