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Show KEEPING CUT FLOWERS FRESH Must Be Properly Taken Care of, and Here Are Some Suggestions of Moment. The only drawback to cut flowers Is that they wither so quickly, and in keeping them fresh some seem to have more luck than others. For instance, in the matter of violets, vio-lets, it is possible to wear them several sev-eral times without noticing the overpowering over-powering stale odor which proclaims them beyond redemption. Of course many people find that they cannot wear cut flowers even for one afternoon, because in some cases the body heat seems to wilt them, but if this can be avoided it Is quite possible pos-sible to find a bunch almost as fresh the second day as on the first if they were properjy guarded overnight. Keep the box that they came in and when you take them off hold the stems under running water for a few min-nutes. min-nutes. taking care not to wet the violets vio-lets themselves Then wrap them up in the oiled paper pa-per and put them back in the covered box outside the window if it is cool; if not. in the refrigerator, but in either case keep them wrapped. This treatment seems to restore the flowers and hold in the delicious odor which so soon becomes rank If they are kept unwrapped in a close room. Some people think a pinch of salt in the water will keep cut flowers fresh longer, and so It does in some cases In others It seems to change the colors col-ors a little. With roses it is success ful. but not so much so with violets. A piece of 511m camphor Is said to t an excellent preservative In the water, and others advocate a small lump of charcoal, but in any case the water should be changed daily and the flow ers put in a coo! place overnight. |