. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. And now it is shoes—wire shoes trimmed with ivy leaves or leucothoe and containing vases filled with flow- ers—that are the thing for table decora- tion. Silk is sometimes used as a cov- ering with a bow of tulle at the toe. The tallest flowers are used at the heel. At an eastern funeral a design rep- resenting a theater ticket with the words on the one side: "Right Al, At Rest, April 13"; on the other: "Heaven, Adinit One," was used. While the flo- rist has not always the say in this matter, t
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. And now it is shoes—wire shoes trimmed with ivy leaves or leucothoe and containing vases filled with flow- ers—that are the thing for table decora- tion. Silk is sometimes used as a cov- ering with a bow of tulle at the toe. The tallest flowers are used at the heel. At an eastern funeral a design rep- resenting a theater ticket with the words on the one side: "Right Al, At Rest, April 13"; on the other: "Heaven, Adinit One," was used. While the flo- rist has not always the say in this matter, this kind of lettering seems hardly in good taste and should not be encouraged. MARGUERITES AND GERANIUMS IN WINDOW BOXES. well-kept grounds. The reasons for this are four-fold : Plants in a metallic recep- tacle are apt to suffer from overheating of the roots and iraproiier drainage. The former difficulty might be avoided by se- lecting a shady location and plants which thrive best therein. Overcrowding is another cause of failure, and a fourth mistake is in the selection of inharmonious colors. Granted that tastes dift'er there can be no excuse for filling an urn with salmon or rose pink geraniums and flaming nas- turtiums. Another instance of harmony not understood was a combination of crimson petunias and scarlet geraniums. Equally liideous color schemes constant- ly groL't the critical eye. Rustic work is rarely out of place— not the fussy shallow baskets peeled and varnished, which savor of the grotesque —but something simple and serviceable, like tlie structure which holds the mag- nificent growth shown in the illustra- tion. A forked branch of a tree is the moro artistic standard, but in the present instance it was convenient to utilize the stub of a maple tree. This supports a section of a lard barrel. Such barrels can be bought of any grocer for cents. They are heavily stayed with bark-covered hoops. With the head re- j)Iaced and the barrel sawed a couple o
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