Coal-Flowers
Dear Aunt Daisy, In The Listener recently you gave instructions for preserving flowers, and also mentioned coal flowers. Could you
please let me know through this column how these flowers are made? I have seen and much admired them.
" Alice,"
Mount Eden.
Put into a glass or china bowl about 5 or 6 small pieces of coal-smialler than an orange, Mix together the following, and pour it over the coal:-1 tablespgon Prussian Blue from the paint shop, 3 tablespoons household ammonia, 2 tablespoons common salt, 1 tablespoon red ink, 3‘tablespoons cold water. Then put the bowl, with its contents; in a warm place to start the growth-on the mantel-shelf in the kitchen, perhaps, or on a sunny window ledge. To keep the "plant" alive, add one tablespoon of water and a teaspoon of salt mixed together, every second day. Pour same gently down inside the bowl. Colours may be varied by using violet, or blue, or green ink.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 481, 10 September 1948, Page 22
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159Coal-Flowers New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 481, 10 September 1948, Page 22
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