. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1086 The American Florist. Dec. i8. Leucothoe. This can hardly be called a Christ- mas green as it is used so much at all other times of the year, both for decoration and as a green for associat- ing with cut flowers. It is one of the best and most useful greens the re- tailer, can handle, keeping well in good condition, cheap enough to be used in quantity and combining well with almost any flower. Leucothoe keeps best in water and where any quantity has to be kept a flat tray with water should be supplied and the
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1086 The American Florist. Dec. i8. Leucothoe. This can hardly be called a Christ- mas green as it is used so much at all other times of the year, both for decoration and as a green for associat- ing with cut flowers. It is one of the best and most useful greens the re- tailer, can handle, keeping well in good condition, cheap enough to be used in quantity and combining well with almost any flower. Leucothoe keeps best in water and where any quantity has to be kept a flat tray with water should be supplied and the stems stored in this the ends being first cut off. They can be packed closely together if a large quantity is handled while small quantities may be kept in deeper vases. A dark, cool place is best to keep any of this class of stock. Wreathing. With the quantities of pine and other wreathing offered by store keep- ers of all kinds, from the big depart- ment stores to the corner grocery, re- tailers are apt to be shy of ordering much of this material, and rightly, for it is at best poor stock and in its cheaper forms hardly fit to be seen in a florist's store. The goods should not be exposed in the store but kept in a cool place until needed, a sample being shown on the counter to possi- ble customers. A far better material is laurel wreathing, this being fine for the decoration of halls or large rooms. In either case it is better to make up the wreathing at the store than to use the ready made stock though, at a busy time, nothing is saved by the operation—there is only the satisfac- tion of having a neater and better article. Decorating: Christmas Plants. How far it is possible to improve plants by means of artistic decoration always has been, and probably always will be, a debatable point. Unques- tionably retailers have, in the past, gone further with this than is neces- sary or artistic and the plants with their frills and furbelows looked more like a dressed up, artifici
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