This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V28", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
These are almost indispensable to the florist for work that is to keep some time without fading readily, and they make excellent pot and tub flowers. Mr. Warne, gardener to Clarence H. Clark, had some fine blue ones on exhibition. It is remarkable that no one has been able to get the secret of obtaining blue Hydrangeas, though Mr. Warne thinks iron does it. Nature in this is like the old saying about some ladies - when she will she will, and when she won't she won't, and there's an end on't.
 
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