. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Cincinnati. Trade has been very quiet during the past week, although a little funeral work bas helped to relieve the monotony of things. Asters have dropped a little in price and quite a lew find their way to the barrel, koses are faring better at $2 to $-1 per hundred. Gladioli are finding a poor market and the only way they can be disposed of is in job lots. The major- ity ot the carnations coming into this market are poor. George & Allan were the principal prizewinners at the Oakley fair of the Hamilton Cou
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Cincinnati. Trade has been very quiet during the past week, although a little funeral work bas helped to relieve the monotony of things. Asters have dropped a little in price and quite a lew find their way to the barrel, koses are faring better at $2 to $-1 per hundred. Gladioli are finding a poor market and the only way they can be disposed of is in job lots. The major- ity ot the carnations coming into this market are poor. George & Allan were the principal prizewinners at the Oakley fair of the Hamilton County Agricultural Society, August 20. The display was very good. A recent heavy storm broke the 8x12- ioot plate-glass window of the Walnut Hills Floral Bazaar. Visitors: L. Baumann, Chicago; Martin Rheukautf, B. Eschner, Philadelphia. The Decoration of Home Grounds. BY C. B. WHITNAI^L, MILWAUKEE, WIS. We present herewith some extracts from Mr. Whitnall's valuable ad- dress on the "Decoration of Home Grounds," deliv- ered before the Society of American Florists at the Milwaukee Convention, August 19, 1903. "Although there may be much in nature lacking beauty, nothing can he beautiful unless it conforms to the requirements of nature. What can you do for an English family living in a Swiss cottage situated on an Illinois prairie? There you have a shelter which has been the outcome of the ingenuity and acquired characteris- tics of a people living in a mountainous country. To an English family it will be a misfit, and the prairie with its monot- ony will cause the building and the family to appearlikeawkward intruders. The attempt of a gardener to harmonize these differences can only be a compro- mise, which in time may gradually evolve into a new order of things and become natural; then it may be beautiful, not before. "Did it ever occur to you that paths are always beautiful, while walks laid out by a single individual seldom are? Sometimes a manufactured walk
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