. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igo5. The American Florist. 521 made of them; they were filled with red roses and daisies. At Thorley's Broadway store the large window was completely filled from floor to ceiling with cybotiums and long American Beauty roses, vases of long snapdragon and pots of lilies. The center post was trimmed with sprays of dendrobiums in small vases. The effect was very showy. Small & Sons' large windows showed considerable floor space but looked well decorated with long American Beauty roses and cibotiums in one, and a
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igo5. The American Florist. 521 made of them; they were filled with red roses and daisies. At Thorley's Broadway store the large window was completely filled from floor to ceiling with cybotiums and long American Beauty roses, vases of long snapdragon and pots of lilies. The center post was trimmed with sprays of dendrobiums in small vases. The effect was very showy. Small & Sons' large windows showed considerable floor space but looked well decorated with long American Beauty roses and cibotiums in one, and azaleas and a hedge of daffodils in the other. Fleischman's was as attractive as usual, without crowding. The large cor- ner case contained vases of very choice carnations. In one of the large side windows were large cut flower boxes with sash ribbon bows. On a small table rested a bunch of white artificial chrysanthemums with asparagus and a large ribbon bow. It was conspicuous and decorative. K. Terriers Versus Flowers. A SERMON TO THE CRAFT. At the annual banquet of the Dutch- ess County Horticultural Society, Pough- keepsie, N. Y., the Rev. Patrick Daly made a very interesting address, from which we take the following as a sea- sonable and refreshing divergence from our routine reading matter: '' My love of flowers would be for me a source of- unqualified delight were it not for the fact that I was born with, or developed at a very early age, a strong love for Irish terriers, and I find that to get along with God and mam- mon is an easy trick compared with combining a love for flowers and of Irish terriers where one has not enough real estate to keep them in separate backyards. The man who would fain love all God's creatures at the same time will find that he has a big con- tract. It is a sad limitation of our condition here below that we have to be very careful in the regulation of our love even for human beings. "Now when a man finds his love dis- tracted by the rival
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