. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. iSSg. The a Af eric an Florist. 437. K B\H1H0M G\V\. arrives on Sattirday. A handsome corsage bou- <|iict can be bontjht of any of the florists for Jio. Pretty boutonnieres for gentlemen's wear are selling for $i ; ' One TremoiU street florist informed a Herald reporter that his contract to decorate a Hack Bay church would call for the use of $4 000 worth o( materials Besides this sum $i,coo would prob- ably be expended for labor in arrang'ng the ; The originator of the above doubtless wa
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. iSSg. The a Af eric an Florist. 437. K B\H1H0M G\V\. arrives on Sattirday. A handsome corsage bou- <|iict can be bontjht of any of the florists for Jio. Pretty boutonnieres for gentlemen's wear are selling for $i ; ' One TremoiU street florist informed a Herald reporter that his contract to decorate a Hack Bay church would call for the use of $4 000 worth o( materials Besides this sum $i,coo would prob- ably be expended for labor in arrang'ng the ; The originator of the above doubtless wants to see a few more flower stores going, so he tells the public there is lots of money in it. Generous soul ! W. J. S. A Birthday Gift. Our illustration is from a photograph of a basket arranged for a birthday gift by Mr. H. H, Battles, of Evans & Bat- tles, Philadelphia. The excellence of the engraving makes it possible for readers to name each of the flowers used and renders unnecessary any notes as to the varieties. The arrangement we consider tnost ex- cellent and worthy of a careful study by all. Note tbat each individual flower is so placed as to fully display all of its own grace and beauty, the combination of the dark and li^ht colored roses, the dark oncidiunis or odontoglossums against the white eucharis blooms, the careless grace ill which the carnations and their foliage are used on the handle and in the basket below, the natural manner in which the spray of Cn.';yne cristata falls from the adiantum ferns above and the entire absence of formality in the whole ar- rangement. Wc are glad to be able to place before our readers such an excellent engraving of such a beautiful and instructive sub- ject, and trust that it will result in con- verting to more natural methods some of that altogether too numerous class who turn out those stiff, formal arrangements in which the grace and loveliness of each flower is annihilated by crowding together as compactly and ev
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