Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-16
NICHOLS EMBALMS FLOWERS
California Man Engaged in Scientific
Preservation of Beauty.
WORK EXHIBITED AT LAND SHOW
Collection of Burbank Creations Dis
played by Alameda County Tn
der His ChRrge-Procesa
Lasts Years.

Preservation Of fruits and flowers has
been reduced to a science by w. D. Mich
OILS. curator OF exhibits for the exposition.
commission OF Alameda county. California.
Only within the last six or seven years
has the processing of flowers been sue
cessful according to Mr.. Nichols He was
FIRST TO successfully process roses. lilies
and magnolia blossoms. lie began this
work seven years ago and stil shows some
NJ his earlier specimens yet in perfect con-
dition
At the first Omaha land show much OF
Mr. Nichols work was on display in the
collection Of the works of Luther Burbank,
shown by Alameda county
1t is expected that a much more com
plete display Of the Burbank creations will
pc shown at the land show to be held here
in October. l.. w. Buckley. a managing
director of the land show is now In the
west making plans for the exhibition of a
large part of the collection OF the Ala
media county commission here Mr. Buck
ley writes
''I took great pleasure in going through
the exhibit departments of the Alameda
county Chamber of Commerce with Mr..
Nichols several weeks ago, when he told
ders he had there. But a few of these Of
these were exhibited at the Omaha Land
show last year, but he hopes to have them
All there next October. Among the novel
ties was tomato potato vine This
showed twenty potatoes on the vine grow
ing out of the earth like a tomato and
came from Fruitvale ranch. One of the
most beautiful exhibits was Henrietta
rose--blood red rose-which had been pro-
cessed for four years
Wonders of the Collection.
Among the early works Of processing,
which had been in the jar for six years,
was the pale Iresena flower, also seven
Jars with different varieties of eucalyptus
buds. His exhibits of plums asparagus,
prunes, etc., were very fine. From Ala
media county he showed me six varieties
of apples in process jars, eight varieties
of peaches all OF them on the limb, which
is-very difficult to process and show very
satisfactorily.
"A freak potato, shown in a jar, had
thirteen tubers around one big potato. The
number had originally been sixteen. Mr..
Nichols put this up at the time OF Billy
Bryan's second campaign and was
tempted to send IT to him as a 16 to T. dem
onstration. One of the rarest freaks
which would interest womankind in gem
eral. was the only yellow magnolia bios
som ever found In Alameda county. 1t was
processed Your years ago and picked from
a tree with 167 blossoms all the rest being
white. This is the only yellow magnolia
blossom that Mr.. Nichols knows of in the
world. Also one triple Towering almond
blossom. The day 1 visited he brought in
some beautiful double Towering almond
blossoms He had six varieties of night
blooming Cereus, plenty of English Haw-
thorne both in red and white. One of his
main attractions is an American Beauty
rose in white, by Burbank; Burbanks ex-
hIbits of thornless blackberres and his
rainbow corn leaves in four us. II is
Mr.. Burbank's theory that IN field
with many colored leaves could be as beau-
tiful as a rainbow in course Of time, while
he believes the corn would be just as good
20 eat as ever.
II am very much in hopes that Mr..
Nichols will be at the Omaha Land show
and that the Alameda county commission
ers, Colonel Theodore Gier, Bernard p.
Miller and Wilbur Walker, will all come
down and help on Alameda and California
day.
Value of Colonization.
wherever 20 In this land OF sunshine
and flowers as they term It. run across
proofs Of the value in colonization and de-
Velopment work to the state or the last
Omaha Land show. From Wilbur Walker,
secretary of the Merchants exchange Of
Oakland. who will be recalled by Land
show visitors as the lecturer on the Bur
bank exhibit and on Alameda county,
comes the statement that IL they received
40 other returns than Mr.. Peter Kern of
Madison, Ia, who was a visitor at the
land show and heard Mr.. Walker talk on
Alameda county, made up his mind to set
tie >there, II would be satisfactory In every
way to the Alameda people. Mr.. Kern has
six in his family and is the representative
of the Roman Catholic Mutual Protection
society of Iowa, consisting OF large mum,
Der of families OF good standing, who
have purchased truck farms at Fruitvale,
in Alameda county. There are six in his
family, and he expects to have 100 more
families in Alameda county within the next
year. Mr.. Charles Dorch and family are
also recruits from the Omaha Land show
When visited the Merchants exchange
Mr. Walker brought forward these facts
and It vas through them that 1T was de