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Show 1 Ever wonder how the professionals profes-sionals turn flowers almost any color? You can do it too with a cake coloring. Add a teaspoon of cake coloring to a pint of warm water and place the stems of freshly cut flowers in it. White flowers seem to work best, but almost any flower immediately takes the colored water up the stems and into the petals. By experimenting ex-perimenting you can get some surprising results with different colors. Glycerine can be used to give your house plants a beauty treatment. treat-ment. It's better, than olive oil because it doesn't collect dust. Put a few drops on a cloth and swab the leaves of philodendrons, snake plants, camellias, etc. Have a dog problem as far as shrubs are concerned? Here's a tip that works soak a cotton cloth with ammonia and hang it on the evergreens and shrubs. It will keep the neighbors' pets away. How often have we gotten cloth sacks of flour, seeds, feed, etc. and not made the best use ; of them because of the imprint-! imprint-! ing? It can be removed easily. Put the bags in a wash basin or enamelled pan in just enough wash water to cover the bags. Slowly add a half teaspoon of household lye, stirring to insure instant dissolving. Boil for a half hour, then rinse bags in fresh water. Rub the bags thoroughly with soap and rinse. To apply insect repellent to screens without splash and splatter, splat-ter, attach a small strip of old carpet to a block of wood. Saturate Satu-rate the carpet with the repel-: repel-: lent and rub it over the screen. If you don't have a garden' hose carrier, a bushel Dasket j makes a handy place to store it. ; It's easy to carry the hose from i place to place and it protects the i hose. |