Crab Apples in Vases
Dear Aunt Daisy, I have a lot of crab apples growing, | and I want to ask you, through The Listener, if there is a way of preserving | them to put in vases. My husband and | I cannot have flowers inside the house on account of our health.
M_ S
’ Karori,
! consulted a florist of national reputation about this. She says that branches of this decorative fruit are often kept just in water for quite a long time, and sometimes in big vases without any water; but the accepted way to keep the ; crab apples with their vivid colour is to | varnish them over carefully with a clear | varnish :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 774, 21 May 1954, Page 33
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112Crab Apples in Vases New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 774, 21 May 1954, Page 33
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