. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 366 The American Florist. Mar. ig, claim their efficiency, and generous customers seelc their worlt. COLOR IN FUNEBAX FLOWERS. Not many years ago, when I first took up the art of the arrangement of flowers, if a customer desired a floral piece for a funeral, no one thought of making up anything except in white and green; and it was the height of impropriety to send a floral token with any color in it. Today how different. The floral emblems used at obsequies of the present day are most brilliant, and often gorgeou
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 366 The American Florist. Mar. ig, claim their efficiency, and generous customers seelc their worlt. COLOR IN FUNEBAX FLOWERS. Not many years ago, when I first took up the art of the arrangement of flowers, if a customer desired a floral piece for a funeral, no one thought of making up anything except in white and green; and it was the height of impropriety to send a floral token with any color in it. Today how different. The floral emblems used at obsequies of the present day are most brilliant, and often gorgeous in their brilliancy, yet skilfully, deftly and artistically arranged. They are most pleasing to the eye, reflect the beauties of Nature, and, at the same time, are in complete harmony with the surroundings in the death chamber, be it in hovel or man- sion. This, the one color scheme, has been laid away with many other ob- solete ideas. The combinations that have taken the place of the one color schemes are more cheerful than those formerly in vogue, still they retain their artistic beauty. The change has benefited both the florists and their patrons. The former benefits by furnishing an outlet for the flowers of various col- ors, allowing a greater leeway in their selection and thus always being able to fill a "long felt want" by the sub- stitution of one flower for another, even if a little different in shading. In the one color scheme of harmony, this could not be done. It benefits the customers by giving a more cheerful aspect to their tokens, and the radiation of a cheerfulness among those who are the recipients of their gifts of flowers, be it the debutante, or the bereaved family of some departed soul. GREATER VARIETY. The range of vision and purchase of the patron and that of the florist have been widened, until the flowers that are in commercial use today are almost as numerous as the sands on the sea shore. This is a most satis- factory situation or conditi
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