It is not hard to believe that the passage through death will be the
occasion for a new blossoming of the flowers of character, after the
analogy of the frozen flowers about which this account from _Harper’s
Weekly_ is given:
The latest and most approved method of preserving flowers during
transportation is that of freezing them. When this process
is employed the flowers are picked while in the bud and will
keep perfectly for several weeks in refrigerator boxes. No
deterioration in their beauty results from this treatment, and
after they have been unpacked and placed in water they slowly
revive and the blossoms develop fully. During the period of
refrigeration all growth is suspended, and so slowly do the
flowers return to their natural state that such blossoms will
last much longer in a room than would be the case had they been
brought directly from the greenhouse or the garden.
The facility with which horticultural specimens have been
transported by this new method has led to experiments in South
Africa, with a view to determining whether many of their
wonderful flowers may not be safely exported in bulk to supply
the trade in Europe and America.
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=Preservatives=--See EVIL, PROTECTION FROM.