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to enable them to settle down and become land owners and 

 good citizens, instead of putting secret seiTice men on their 

 trail hunting for anarchists. 



Jules A. Sandoz,, Director. 



President GrecMi : This completes the reports of the dis- 

 tricts. We will now listen to Mr. Louis Henderson, of 

 Omaha, on the subject of Decorating. 



DECORATING. 



L, HENDERSON, OMAHA. 



Mr. President and Members of the Nebraska State Horticul- 

 tural Society : 



To decorate from a florist's standpoint to arrange plants 

 and flowers suitable for various occasions may be easier done 

 than to explain. 



To be a successful decorator you must cultivate a love for 

 Nature in its luxurious form, whereby you may be able to 

 express or impress a pleasing effect suitable for the various 

 occasions, whether it be a reception, a brilliant wedding, or 

 some other floral decoration. 



My first recollection of decorating was some forty years 

 ago in a sod house on one of these western prairies. The 

 occasion being my birthday, tropical house plants then not 

 being plentiful, but my mother a lover of Nature's beautiful 

 flowers gathered native prairie flowers and cotton wood 

 branches and with these decorated the sod walls of our 

 humble home, making it look to me as a palace of beauty. 



However this simple decoration has impressed me many a 

 time in the years since gone by, that it is not always the 

 choicest or swellest of flowers that make the longest or best 

 impression. 



Use what available flowers and green that are in season, 

 arrange them to the best of your ability, establish a confl- 

 deiice in yourself that you are a master of the art. 



