268 A WATER BOUQUET. 



We can, however, render the process visible 

 by placing flowers under water, for we can then 

 see the oxygen gas in the form of tiny pearls 

 edging each leaf and petal, and streaming up in 

 columns to the surface of the water. 



I will try to describe how this effect can best be 

 seen. Two or three well-contrasted flowers, such 

 as a small white lily, some scarlet geranium, a few 

 heaths, with maidenhair fern, and a little piece of 

 arbor-vitae, or box, to form a dark background, 

 may be tied together, and firmly affixed by string 

 or wire to a piece of stone. 



The other articles required are a soup plate, a 

 glass shade, and a tub full of freshly drawn spring 

 water. The shade should be about fourteen inches 

 high, and wide enough to take in the bouquet we 

 have made. The tub must be sufficiently large 

 to allow the shade to be held upright under the 

 water. 



When all is ready, place the flowers and 

 stone in the glass shade, held horizontally, and 

 gradually sink it under water till the shade is 

 quite full, place the soup plate at the open 

 end, where the stone is, and slowly raise the 



