III. SPRING FLOWERS
These are so well known there is no necessity to describe them in detail. Briefly, pieces of colored tissue are gummed together in part along the edges and then attached to a piece of split steel spring. This allows them to be folded flat, but when released they open out to the full extent of the spring. They bear little resemblance to any known flower, but their production from a paper cone after the manner of the inventor is a very pretty and effective trick when properly presented. Different grades and sizes of the flowers can be purchased at the magic stores.
There are many methods of loading the flowers into the paper cone imperceptibly, and details of several of the best yet devised follow; but it must be borne in mind that any method by which the operator finds he can achieve the desired end—that is, an imperceptible loading—is the best method for him. A sheet of stiff white paper, about twenty-four inches square, is necessary and a parasol with a spike (in lieu of a ferrule), by which it can be stuck in the floor, is generally used to receive the flowers as they are poured from the cone.
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