. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. SHOUTING OUB SLOGAK. If You "Say It with ; Tell the dairyman with buttercups, The soldier with flags, The sailor with saltweed, The pessimist with crabapple. The old folks with century plant, The philosopher with cereus, The osteopath with rubber plant, The gossip with elephant's ears, The deaf-mute with mums. And the preacher with jack-in-the- pulpit. —Los Angeles Times. Very good, so far as the nomenclature goes, but why omit The lover with tulips, The old maid with heartsease, The transgressor with rue. The "nut" with
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. SHOUTING OUB SLOGAK. If You "Say It with ; Tell the dairyman with buttercups, The soldier with flags, The sailor with saltweed, The pessimist with crabapple. The old folks with century plant, The philosopher with cereus, The osteopath with rubber plant, The gossip with elephant's ears, The deaf-mute with mums. And the preacher with jack-in-the- pulpit. —Los Angeles Times. Very good, so far as the nomenclature goes, but why omit The lover with tulips, The old maid with heartsease, The transgressor with rue. The "nut" with "daffy-dills," The dude with dandelions, The funny man with ticklegrass. The beekeeper with honeysuckle? —Louisville Times. ARMISTICE DAY ABROAD. IIow flowers were used to celebrate Armistice day in England is told in the following paragraph from the Garden- ers' Chronicle, of Loudon, for Novem- ber 20: "During Armistice week, when the thoughts of the whole nation were turned to remembrance of those who laid down their lives for the cause of liberty during the great war, many thousands of people expressed their es- teem and love for the departed through the medium of flowers. At local shrines throughout the country floral tributes of affection and regard were abundant, while the national shrine, the cenotaph in Whitehall, was, and still is, sur- rounded by an extraordinary wealth of flowers, of which it has been estimated tliere are no fewer than 100,000 separate emblems. King George V., the Prince of Wales and other members of the royal family, the prime minister and other notable people, placed tributes at the base of the cenotaph, and among the many others was one from the National Union of Horticultural Work- ers, which consisted of a design four feet high and three feet wide, composed of yellow and crimson chrysanthemums, bordered with laurel leaves, the whole representing the badge of the union. The inscription was as follows: 'To the memory of the 105
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