Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1895 — Liva-Looking Dead Plants. [ARTICLE]

Liva-Looking Dead Plants.

A curious exhibit is Wing placed in position in tlit* Mechanics’ Fair to-day. li Is somewhat Wluted, lint Hie mure agers of Hie fair were unable U* aeeure It before, it is nothing, more or less, Hutu a display of ‘‘muiuniitted’* plants. II requires n InWl to inform people Hail they are dead, for lfe«* plants appear exactly us if alive and growing. They are ltol made of wu. or of cloth, Imt arc genuine plants that have grown in Hu* i*urtl» until tfegy have’reached it good state of devi'lsp ■ incut, when, by their being Irentevt U» a certain Injection, the growth is arrested. Then comes Hie strange part, for the plants so treated do not droop and die; Hie leaves remain frcali aiftl bright, and the plant stands erect. I* is. moreover, Impervious to Wat and cold, and nothing seems aide to destroy Ils strange repose. The most striking pari of (he exhibit is a collection of large palms used for decorating. These plants are noted for Wing very lender ami susceptible to iilmoot every influence. Those on exhibition hnvo been dead for six months, yet not even when Hie leaves are carefully examined would the fact W suspected.