Preserving Plant Colors

Preserving Plant Colors.

In order to preserve the colors of plants it is necessary to kill the specimens quickly, and this can be effected by plunging them for a few seconds in boiling water. If a plant is allowed to die slowly, the colors of its leaves and flowers will gradually fade. A writer in Meehan's Monthly says that some succulent plants will live for months after being placed between the drying leaves of an herbarium, and finally dry up and turn black.