Chemical Production of Black Flowers
A Southern cripple, Dennis Trapley, of Savannah, Ga., has invented a formula by which three inexpensive and common chemicals can be mixed which will if properly applied produce black cotton at one tenth that of dyeing it. He says that he has produced black roses, and declares that any flower can be cultivated so that its blooms will be black. Prominent men are back of him. He declared that he had taken an ordinary rose bush and planted it in rich earth, and by feeding it his chemical the bush had produced a rose as large and heavy as an American Beauty, and as black as a coal. Further, the chemicals seemed to have a good effect on the plants. Those experimented with have grown to extraordinary size and are of fine fiber.