. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 12 The Florists' Review APBIL Id, .-x'ti^'- The Valley is Plentiful Eaough to Make up for the Absence of the Daily Gwsage. regular fancy ferua, the seed of which helps to keep the water clear and 8weet, and with a good keeping flower, such as lily of the valley. In between the ferns and valley can be arranged corsages, one for each day of the voyage. For the latter days of the voyage a cor- sage of cypripediums, one of cattleyas, one of dendrobiums and one of onci- diums will be good. For the first two or three days, sweet peas, gardenias, v
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 12 The Florists' Review APBIL Id, .-x'ti^'- The Valley is Plentiful Eaough to Make up for the Absence of the Daily Gwsage. regular fancy ferua, the seed of which helps to keep the water clear and 8weet, and with a good keeping flower, such as lily of the valley. In between the ferns and valley can be arranged corsages, one for each day of the voyage. For the latter days of the voyage a cor- sage of cypripediums, one of cattleyas, one of dendrobiums and one of onci- diums will be good. For the first two or three days, sweet peas, gardenias, violets, or something similar may be used. If the corsages are each placed in glass tubes of different sizes, they will make an exceedingly good looking box. The receiver can take out one of the corsages each day without leav- ing the box altogether empty, as the valley, in ordinary conditions and if well taken care of, will last tor the six or seven days of the voyage. '' The old way of packing the corsages in boxes is losing more and more ground, and the new arrangement of the flowers in water deserves to gain all that the old loses, and more. The little extra work which this way of sending out the flowers puts us to, does not count when we consider that all the steamer orders are given by patrons who cannot go to see them and must therefore trust to our judgment. We owe this much to the public, which knows about flowers only what we teach, and the more our patrons know about flowers, the better flower buyers and flower utilizers they will ; PANSY COBSAOES. Everybody likes pansies and there is sure satisfaction in a well made corsage bouquet of pansies; the bright-faced, fresh little flowers make up splendidly. To make a good corsage of pansies it is necessary to wire the stems. Take a fine wire and insert it in the stem; it goes in easily; then the pansies will stand up, you can put them where you want them, and they will stay where you put them. Also, no one ever wil
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