Solution uptake: Solution uptake of flowers was measured using a balance by weighting each vase
containing its solution without its flowers and correcting the evaporation from the 4 evapo-control vases
(vases which did not contain any flowers and were located between the vases that contained flowers at
different places) by subtracting the average of 4 evaporation data from solution uptake on a daily basis.
Daily vase solution uptake was calculated as: vase solution uptake rate (g stem−1 day−1)=(St-1-St); where,
St is weight of vase solution (g) at t = day 1, 2, 3, etc., and St-1 is weight of vase solution (g) on the
previous day