. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. ^^i^^THE m mnmminTuiii7fyfffT?:ir m\\\k' iffiffSViiTriiif TOGGING OUT THE isr nr EASTER PLANTS An overdressed plant is like an overdressed woman, all right to catch y»i^gv the eye, hut not the kind one would t^a^i in one's home. But, on the other ^^^ hand, a dowdy dresser never gets a second glance—not when all the Easter parade is togged out for inspection. HAT was it the Bard of TX 77" Avon said! Oh, yes: W/ "Costly thy habit as ^^W thy purse can buy; rich, •^ * ^ not gaudy: for the ap- parel oft bespeaks the ; The ap
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. ^^i^^THE m mnmminTuiii7fyfffT?:ir m\\\k' iffiffSViiTriiif TOGGING OUT THE isr nr EASTER PLANTS An overdressed plant is like an overdressed woman, all right to catch y»i^gv the eye, hut not the kind one would t^a^i in one's home. But, on the other ^^^ hand, a dowdy dresser never gets a second glance—not when all the Easter parade is togged out for inspection. HAT was it the Bard of TX 77" Avon said! Oh, yes: W/ "Costly thy habit as ^^W thy purse can buy; rich, •^ * ^ not gaudy: for the ap- parel oft bespeaks the ; The apparel oft bespeaks a lot of other things besides the man. Suppose the irreverent do call him Little Willie Shake-his-spear and pooh-pooh his philosophy, just the same the quotation is pat—it describes exactly the togging up of the Easter plants. Of course the skillful plantsman wants the stock sold au naturel—as nearly as possible the way nature made it—because he knows it takes a better plant to sell that way. He seeks to limit competition. But every retailer knows the Easter stock would make a sorry display if it were not for the trimmings. No matter how fine the plant, it needs the trained hand of the decorator to make it look its best. Ask any flower show manager. We Must Trim. No one but a depart- ment store, selling lilies for advertising pur- poses, would think of oflPering plants without a pot cover, at Easter •or any other time—a piece of crepe paper or a penny pot cover at the least. But the tendency in some first- class flower stores is rather to overdressing. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say the tendency has been toward overdressing, for at present there is, hap- pily, a more rational trend — the furbelows are no longer permitted to conceal and extin- guish the natural beau- ties of a well-grown and well-flowered plant. Time was that an Eas- ter azalea was so swathed in crepe paper, Porto Eican mats and ribbon that about the only glimpse of
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