. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. ALBANY, N. Y. HOLMES BROS. 20 Steuben St. 311 Central Ave. No order too lanre nor too small to receive our prompt and courteous attention themselves. The students prepared a miniature Japanese garden, with a stream flowing through and a native home at one end of a bridge. The floor was sodded over and covered with pine needles, while potted plants were so disposed as to give the effect of a natural garden and a forest background was created by the use of a number of evergreens. The exhibit consisted chiefly of table displays, also made by the stude
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. ALBANY, N. Y. HOLMES BROS. 20 Steuben St. 311 Central Ave. No order too lanre nor too small to receive our prompt and courteous attention themselves. The students prepared a miniature Japanese garden, with a stream flowing through and a native home at one end of a bridge. The floor was sodded over and covered with pine needles, while potted plants were so disposed as to give the effect of a natural garden and a forest background was created by the use of a number of evergreens. The exhibit consisted chiefly of table displays, also made by the students. The table decorations were rated for color combinations and effects and daintiness. One of the finest was of pink Russell roses, delphinium and maidenhair fern, while the ladies who attended the dinner were presented with corsages of the same flowers, laid at their places at the tables. Pink candles were used to light the tables, shedding a soft glow over the napery and silver. At another table the candles were green, surrounding a centerpiece of Opiielia roses and maidenhair fern, wliile the corsages were also of Ophelia roses, witli violets, tied with green ribbon. A third table was deco- rated for a Christmas breakfast, with deciduous holly and white pine in a green dish, the wliole lighted by red candles. The university also had an exhibit of jiomj'ons, showing a collection of twen- ty-seven of the best of the 12;') different varieties now being develo])e(l. The most popular were Aviator, a rose pink rather light towards the center; Coed and Varsity, of the button type; Maple Leaf, Dean, Primrose and Yellow .Tacket, and F. G. Williamson, a full single, almost of a mahogany rrd. Another exhibit consisted of a selec- tion of forty . chrysan- themums, most of them exceptinnallv fine flowers, which elicited a great deal of favorable comment. Prob;ibly the best were Vermont, a shell pink; and General Pershing, a deoji purple'with ri'llex Other mums s
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