. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. cause the flowers to drop.—S, Parsons,York CO. Pa. 2,208. Beviving Fowers ? Hot water it is said,will often revive flowers when withered. Placethe stems in a cup of boiling-hot water; leavethem in it until each petal has been smoothedout, then cut off the coddled ends and put theminto milk-warm water. Colored flowers revivesooner than those that are of a snowy whiteness,as the latter turn yellow. A cool room is bestadapted to keeping flowersfresh. They will wiltquickly in badly ventila
. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. cause the flowers to drop.—S, Parsons,York CO. Pa. 2,208. Beviving Fowers ? Hot water it is said,will often revive flowers when withered. Placethe stems in a cup of boiling-hot water; leavethem in it until each petal has been smoothedout, then cut off the coddled ends and put theminto milk-warm water. Colored flowers revivesooner than those that are of a snowy whiteness,as the latter turn yellow. A cool room is bestadapted to keeping flowersfresh. They will wiltquickly in badly ventilated rooms, especially iffilled with Tobacco smoke. Each flower as itfades should be taken away, or it will cause theothers to decay. 2, Building an Amateur Hot-house. Pre-sumably the house is intended for general pur-poses, although the inquirer fails to state accompanying illustration represents crosssection of hot-house of the desired dimensions(12x20 feet) such as would do very well on thatslope. As to the construction of such a buildingthe general rules given in earlier issues of Pop-. Amateur Bot-Bouse located on a Slope. ULAR Gardening will apply. Permanent sashbars for the roof are now generally preferredto seperate sash, and ventilation should be pro-vided for, which may be done, as indicated inillustration, by an arrangement at the top. Myplan avoids the necessity of much digging intothe ground, and of heating a great body of airbetween glass and benches. A small waterheater may be put into a covered pit on one arrangement, of pipes is shown in illustra-tion. Part of them are in the ground (encasedin large tile) under the lower bench, which is tobe used for propagation, etc., while others arefastened to the back wall above the higherbench. The latter may be used for forcingvegetables, growing Tomato or Cabbage plants,or for flowers, and similar purposes. The pre-pared soil on the forcing benches should be fourto five inches deep. 2,168. Hedge in
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