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Show TREATMENT OF CUT FLOWERS. 8lmple Methods by Which Frethneii May Be Preserved. Few persons know that violets, carnations, car-nations, etc., aftor they are cut require re-quire different care if they are to be kept alive and frosh. Violets, for Instance, In-stance, after being worn become soft and wilted. Thoy mny be made like now by clipping a short bit from the stems and putting the flowers Into n glass wherein the' water roaches the blossoms. Tho bouquet should not bo cut apart Over tho flowers and glass itself a piece of wax paper should bo placed and twisted down tightly nnd tho whole set In the refrigerator re-frigerator or out of doors If the weather weath-er la not too cold freezing. With this treatment the violets, unless dead, become be-come fresh. A girl who wears these flowers frequently fre-quently has adopted an ovon Blmplor method of freshening. For us soon ns Bho takes them off she plunges tho heads Into cold wntor, and then puts tho bunch back In the box In which It camo, covering tho flowers with tho wax paper always used as a lining. Tho box Is then put out on the window win-dow alll, nnd In tho morning tho blossoms blos-soms nro usually like now. |