Show interesting discovery the paris correspondent of 0 a st rit louis paper says and now let me tell you of a most beautiful discovery which has hag recently been made by a celebrated parisian horticulturist by the name of herbert I 1 was persuaded to go to h his i s rooms a few days since and I 1 assure you I 1 had no reason to regret the long walk I 1 ha had i taken beneath a large glass case tour four or five feet in height and as many in in circumference were placed pots of roses jap japo japonicas bic nicas as pinks dal dah kahlias dahlias afia lias s china aster ac all in bud by means of a certain gas invented by himself and which is made to pass by a gutta percha tube to any pot required mr herbert causes the instantaneous blooming of the flowers the ladies ladief in the room asked successively for roses dahlias kahlias and japon japo japonicas acas nicas and saw them burst into full fall bloom and b beauty lity in a second it was really wonderful mr herbert is now trying to improve on his discovery and make the gas more portable and its application less visible ane secret is ot of course ii lis and his rooms are crowded every day with the most delighted spectators I 1 wish ibish I 1 could send you the lovely camelia which I 1 received which when asked for was so tightly enveloped in the green leaves of its calyx that the color of Us its lower flower could not even be guessed at 5 and yet the request was hardly out of my lips when the beautiful white camelia was in my band when he has made a little more progress mr herbert intends to get wit olt a patent and give give the discovery to his friends and the he public the writer probably meant that mr herbert had bad dis discovered C some new method of combining or applying the gases mr herbert has invented no new gas there is no new thing under the sun |