. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. JQOr. The American Florist. 603. DESIGN WORK FOR THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE MRS. STANFORD. (By the Frank Pelicano Company, San Francisco, Cul. See San Francisco notes, page 620.) THE RETAIL TRADE Give Tbem the Flowers Now. Closed eyes can't see the white roses, Cold hands can't hold them, you know. Breath that is stilled cannot gather The odors that sweet from them blow. Death with a peace beyond dreaming Its children o£ earth does endow. Life Is the time we can help them. So give them the flowers now! —North America
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. JQOr. The American Florist. 603. DESIGN WORK FOR THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE MRS. STANFORD. (By the Frank Pelicano Company, San Francisco, Cul. See San Francisco notes, page 620.) THE RETAIL TRADE Give Tbem the Flowers Now. Closed eyes can't see the white roses, Cold hands can't hold them, you know. Breath that is stilled cannot gather The odors that sweet from them blow. Death with a peace beyond dreaming Its children o£ earth does endow. Life Is the time we can help them. So give them the flowers now! —North American. Attractive Easter Widdow Decorations. The accompanying illustration of window decoration in the store of Otto Bauer, of Washington, D. C, is unique and the original attracted much atten- tion. The conceit is a mammoth Easter egg on wheels, drawn by a team of ducklings with a rabbit as teamster. The shell is covered with sheet moss and jonquils are seen in the opening at the side. Chicks are perched on the shell. S. E. A California View. As a matter of truth, the California hostess who uses flowers for ornamenta- tion has been spoiled with too much ma- terial at hand and loses all sense of beauty and propriety in decoration, as a rule. They are also hampered with the imported conventional ideas, brought from the east, where conditions are vastly different, and which have stifled any possible originality, so that each table decoration is a dull repetition of what one saw at the last place, until everything about it is stereotyped ex- cept the flower itself; and this can be guessed nine times out of ten, as only certain flowers are used by the unim- aginative hostess at certain seasons. There is undying fame awaiting that wizard who shall evolve something artistic and new in the way of flower decorating for functions, but until she appears one of the best rules to follow is "don'; That is, do not overdo it. The most effective and greatly admired "flower sche
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