The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-08-04

DrISOtl ifcc, H0pOy o'Ass
syery suspicion of witchcraft, save
thst OF beauty and purity.-Yankee
lede.
YeUINameon a Rose Leaf.
"Shan l write your name on this
tose?"
"How will you do its" asked e New
York Mail and Express reporter ofthe
dealer, who was handling a beautiful
iacqueminot rose.
"As easily as writing on paper with
a pencil and without iniuring the rose
in any way"
"Tell me about the process"
ut is done. by an electric needle.
The needle consists ola very fine piece
OF platinum wire and Is connected
with q very powerful battery. The
rose must OF course be handled very
carefully or the entire flower will be
destroyed. Take one OF the leaves of
the fouer-one of the most promin-
emit ones and q perfect one, and place
under it piece Of glass. Then with
the needle quickly write your name
over the leaf. The needle must be held
very lightly, but it must touch the
flower. The electricity conveyed
through the needle kills the parts that
il touches and drives all the color
out, leaving the name distinctly writ
=. ek~s~ hoxrk IN cnlnrah
flowers, like this red rose, or on q yell
low flower. It can be done on q white
leaf, but does not show as well rs on
the color"
green?"
Every easily. Some florists claim
that colorine flowers il o trade secret,
but it is nothing OF the sort. When
the Emerald ball was given in Brook
lyn these greer.tipped carnations were
very prominent In the decorations.
Everyone present at the ball wore
some OF these oddlookfng flowers in
their coats. A great many persons
thought that they had really grown as
they appeared that evening, and be-
lieve some amateur gardeners have
been trying to buy some OF the plants
to grow in their gardens this summer
anybody who wants to can easily
have some of these flowers. They are
only the ordinary white carnations
colored. and, instead OF being a trade
secret, 1t is just the result OF little
chemical experiment. One way to
color these flowers is to doctor them
while they are growing. This is done
L.. L. s,~A~ kha okn
er weak solution OF carbolic acid.
The acid must not be strong enough
to injure the plant, and just enough
should be put in the stem tor it to
soak into the bud and flower. This
will give it greenish tint when it
has opened, and to make the color
deeper the flower should be washed in
q solution OF carbolic acid after it has
been picked. This method can be
used when number of the colored
flowers are wanted, as they can be-
dipped into the solution handful at
the time. The color does not take
hold Of the flowers in an artistic man.
ner, but appears in blotches on the
leaves. II time is no object, a very
pretty coloring can he given to the
flowers. After they have been picked
the leaves should be carefully squeezed
in the hands until only the edges Of
the leaves are exposed. These should
be left in the fumes Of sulpher for
short time and then the flowers drop.
ped into q green dye. The dye will
color the flower Just where the fumes
have touched. By this means and by
exercising little care the flowers can
be made to look very pretty. The
edges OF the leaves can be colored
green, and light green streak can be
made to run down the veins Of the
leaves. The white earn ations can bt
made blue, green, yellow, purple
black or any color that one may
wish"
"Is it possible to color other flow
ers?"
"Just as easily as to color the car
nations. Lily OF the valley can be-
made blue or red OR any color. l have
taken spray of lily OF the valley and
made one of the little bells green. an.
other red, another blue and yellow,
and SO on. The large lilies can be
made to look very peculiar. They can
easily be colored and their names and
iates can be written on their large
caves. Any lover who might wish
,ould send lots of letters to some fair
ady in this way, and no one would
aver dream Of examining the leaves Of
lilies or roses to find messages of at.
lection. If any one liked too. he could
arrange quite q pretty code OF signals
with the oddly.colored flowers. A
blue rose might mean one word, q
green carnation anouher, and so on,
using yellow lilies OF the valley, purple
pinks, violet chrysantnemums, and so
5n. Different colors on the same flow.
srs could be made to mean anything.
In fact. new language of flowers will
have to be arranged to suit these new
colored floral beauties. The process
OF putting carbollc acid on the stems
of carnations to color them was, ! be-
lieve, discovered by New York boy,
who had spent great many months
experimenting. Since the Emerald
ball they have been named the emer.
aid pink"