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Interesting Experiment The following


method OF obtaining natural flowers in the


winter, any day you please, we copy from
an Old scientific work;


"Choose some of the most perfect buds
ofthe flowers you would preserve, such as
the latestn in blowing, and ready to open,
cnt them off with pair OF scissors, eav
ing to each, if possible, a piece of the
stem about three inches long; cover the
end of the stem Immediately with Span
ish wax, and when the buds are a little
shrank and wrinkIed. wrap each of them
up separately in piece of paper perfect
ly Clean and dry, and lock them up in a
dry box or drawer, and they will keep
without corrupting. In winter, or any
other time, when you would have the flow.
ers bow, take the buds over night and
cut off the end Of the stem sealed with
Spanish wax, and put the buds into water
Wherein ittle nitre or salt has been IN
fused, and the next day you will have the
pleasure of seeing the buds open and ex-
pand themselves, and the flowers display
their most lively colors, and breathe their
agreeable odors"