Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1919 — Roses of Any Color Now Obtained With Chemicals [ARTICLE]

Roses of Any Color Now Obtained With Chemicals

Recent experiments have proved it practicable to make a rose bush yield roses of any color desired. It must, however, be a bush that would normally bear white roses. Then it is merely a question of watering the soli with a very dilute solution of one chemical or another. Potash will cause the bush to produce green roses; alum will give them a lilac hue, and muriatic acid will turn them red. By like means the long-sought blue rose has been obtained; but the chemical employed in this case is a secret. The same method, with like results, can be applied to white hydrangeas and other white flowers.