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Willis Family recipe book, 1833-1861
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How to have Roses at Christmas Select from your rose trees such buds as are ready to blow; tie a piece of thread round the stalk of each. You must take care not to touch the bud with your hand or even the stalk any more than you can avoid. Cut it carefully from the tree with the stalk two or 3 in in length. Melt some sealing wax & quickly apply it to the end of the stalk. The wax should only be as warm as to be ductile. Form a piece of paper into a cone like shape wherein place the roses; screw it up carefully, so as to exclude the air from it. do so by each; then put them all into a box & the box into a drawer all of which is intended to keep the air from it. In winter take them out & cut off the ends of the stalk place them into a flower pot with lukewarm water In two or three hours they will blow as in summer retaining all their grateful fragrance. John Beck Jasper August 20th 1837
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How to have Roses at Christmas Select from your rose trees such buds as are ready to blow; tie a piece of thread round the stalk of each. You must take care not to touch the bud with your hand or even the stalk any more than you can avoid. Cut it carefully from the tree with the stalk two or 3 in in length. Melt some sealing wax & quickly apply it to the end of the stalk. The wax should only be as warm as to be ductile. Form a piece of paper into a cone like shape wherein place the roses; screw it up carefully, so as to exclude the air from it. do so by each; then put them all into a box & the box into a drawer all of which is intended to keep the air from it. In winter take them out & cut off the ends of the stalk place them into a flower pot with lukewarm water In two or three hours they will blow as in summer retaining all their grateful fragrance. John Beck Jasper August 20th 1837
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