| Show apple in winter we all love the beautiful fragrant apple blossoms that charm us for a short season in tha spring and aota baal he last shower of white petals avei 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 it large branches are broken from the trees and placed in water in a warm sonny window they will soon flower and many of the blossoms will be a 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 aho more pointed leaf buds wild pear and wild cherry branches may be flowered in a similar manner but not so satisfactorily as apple tree limbs no doubt many other of early blooming shrubs and trees could be made to blossom in this way here is an interesting field for experiment for flower lovers particularly for invalids and children the satisfaction of sending to a side neighbor or presenting to a friend a aunch of fresh apala blossoms in winter amply repay the trifling labor required to produce them youths companion |
