Show apple blossoms in winter we all love the beautiful fragrant apple blossoms that charm us for a short season in the spring and note baal the last shower of white petals over the emerald green carpet beneath the trees all persons do not know however how easily these lovely flowers may be caused to bloom indoors in winter if large branches are broken from the trees and placed in water in a warm sunny window they will soon flower and many of the blossoms win be as beautiful and fragrant as those that bloom on the trees in the spring care must be taken to select such branches as have an abundance of plump blooming buds and some of these should be removed as well as some of the more pointed leaf ands wild pear and wild cherry branches may be flowered in a similar manner but not BO satisfactorily as apple tree limbs no doubt many other kinds of early blooming shrubs and trees could be made to blossom in this way here is an interesting field for ment for flower lovers particularly for invalids and children the satisfaction of sending to a sick neighbor or presenting to a friend a bunch of fresh apple blossoms in winter amply repays the trifling labor required to produce them youths companion |