Show painting ane lily fasi ion in flowers has taken a freak turn in Germ ciny of late and there 1 great demand in certain foi blooms of hues not found in nature flowers are cut with extra long stalks a few ho irs before they reach lull maturity then the stalks are put in water in which aniline dyes have been dissolved white carnations lilies and pansies are the easiest to de and give the most natural results As the stalk sucks up the nater the aniline is cairies through all the fane asels ot the blosson and de posited in its cells so that after a few ho irs its color Is completely dished sometimes strange and even beautiful effects are secured by stop ping the colobung process before it Is complete the white petals will then be delicately veined with green or red these being the colon most success fully used since the discovery that the flowers are simply ded there Is a great out cry among who pro no ace the process an outrageous fraud on nature both inartistic and vi igar tl is does not prevent the de mand for the dyed flowers from 1 |