The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 729
Advantage of keeping them in the Darkfor two or three Days previous to exhibiting them for Competition. — Sir, Atp. 498. you recommend my mode of packing flowers; which, had you givena section of the box, would, I think, have been better understood.Packing flowers in this way improves the beauty of… … 127 place them in a dark cellar, changing the water in I which they are kept. Flowers shown in pots are kept in darkness in the same way, which improvestheir colour wonderfully. I have no doubt, that,if you had seen the polyanthus when packed, youwould not have considered it the same flower,when…
