Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1883 — Flowers is Potatoes. [ARTICLE]

Flowers is Potatoes.

A gentleman from Utica in Louisville, who wished to send some beautiful flower buds to his wife, was at a loss how to do so. A florist friend said he would fix them. He cut a potato into two pieces and bored holes into them, into which be inserted the stems of the buds,and placed them in a box with cotton to support them. A letter from the recipient acknowledged the remembrance, and said that the buds had developed into fullblown flowers. There is sufficient moisture in a good-sized potato to support a. flower for two weeks in a moderately cool temperature. Flowers from boquets or baskets may be preserved in the eame way. The potatoes may be hidden by. leaves or mooses.