JUNE 29, 1S99. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



95 



Asparagus Sprengeri. 



white by way of contrast. Be careful 

 to use pretty greens and round the 

 wreath well. 



Crescent wreaths would seem to be 

 losing popularity. We rather think 

 the main cause is that they are more 

 difficult to make. When making 

 wreaths of any kind the flowers should 

 be arranged to either face straight up 

 or one way from both sides; don't 

 make it pin-wheel fashion. 



Lilies in some form or color are ob- 

 tainable the year 'round, and with the 

 many beautiful ones out in the gar- 

 den at present very effective decora- 

 tive or design work can be done. Lil- 

 ium tenuifolium is a splendid little 

 flower where brilliancy is wanted; a 

 cluster of them anywhere is sure to at- 

 tract. Lilium auratum is being used 

 a good deal for funeral work, either as 

 flat bunches or in design work, in 

 which they are very imposing. They 

 are a little too strong for decorative 

 work, but many like them with glad- 

 iolus and they will pass where they 

 are neither too profuse nor too near to 

 annoy. A room decorated with vases 

 of the different lilies to be had at pres- 

 ent would be a most interesting sight. 



Japanese iris are in and are very 

 fine. They are suitable for everything, 

 almost, outside of hand-bouquets. If 

 you have any Japanese vases to fill or 

 Japanese rooms to decorate you can 



exercise lots of your ability with these 

 lovely flowers, and nothing will exceed 

 them in a funeral wreath if arranged 

 properly, that is, not too flat and one 

 a little above the other. Of course 

 when Japanese iris are put in any de- 

 sign they should be confined to one 

 color. Arranged in vases mixed colors 

 look best, and a few of their own 

 leaves or some grasses should be with 

 them. 



Bunches of Mountain Laurel in full 

 bloom are being offered by the fern 

 peddlers, and it's fine for decorations. 

 This is a time of the year when out- 

 door flowers have the first call where 

 cheap work and bright effects are 

 wanted. 



With garden flowers we are permit- 

 ted a wider range of color. Many times 

 and in many positions vases of mixed 

 flowers will have a better effect than if 

 the colors were used separately. 



It was the custom of the old Dutch 

 masters to paint flowers mixed in a 

 manner no one would dare mix them 

 today; they did it because it gave 

 them an opportunity to bring out 

 strong contrasts in color which suited 

 best the taste and interior decorations 

 of those days. This has changed, and 

 if you look at the works of the flower 

 painters of today you will notice the 

 tones are subdued; there is a greater 

 refinement in arrangement as well as 



in color, and this is not because we 

 grow finer or softer hued flowers alto- 

 gether, but because we are advancing 

 to higher standards of floricultural art. 

 There is an element in our decorative 

 art for which there can be no teacher 

 — that is the creative element, whsre 

 brainwork precedes handiwork, where 

 we cast aside set forms and known 

 models and bring forth beauties from 

 the mind's eye. It is the poor florist 

 who often furnishes the architect and 

 the painter with ideas in decoration. 

 Our position should be a more exalted 

 one, and it would be, too, if we were 

 more particular and had laws to guide 

 us. 



Floral work is more or less tempo- 

 rary, but that seems to make it all the 

 more important, and we are expected 

 to furnish lasting impressions. 



IVERA. 



CONN. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The Rose Exhibition held in Hart- 

 ford, June 13 and 14 was a success. 

 The exhibits of roses were exception- 

 ally fine and numerous for the season. 

 Among the roses the most noticeable 

 were Capt. Hayward, Marchioness of 

 Lome, Ulrich Brunner and Mme. Ga- 

 briel Luizet; the latter variety has 

 stood the severe winter much better 

 than others and has produced some 

 magnificent flowers. W. E. Wallace 

 showed a very fine collection of over 

 seventy varieties. Charles Lincoln, 

 who manufactures the "Queen" plant 

 support or stand, was on hand with the 

 best flowers from his splendid collec- 

 tion. Unfortunately for the society, 

 his paeonies were past their prime. As 

 Mr. Lincoln has 125 varieties of this 

 flower it can be easily imagined what 

 a splendid showing these could have 

 made. Col. C. H. Case, Jas. Ballan- 

 tyne and Mrs. J. R. R. Moore had 

 prominent rose exhibits. 



W. B. May had a fine collection of 

 sweet peas and rare water lilies; Robt. 

 Patchet, vegetables and fine strawber- 

 ries; Jos. Albiston, of South Manches- 

 ter, Conn., strawberries, among which 

 were some seedlings from "Jessie," 

 deep red, of fine form and very rich 

 flavor. 



Mark Wakeman showed some well 

 grown hydrangeas, and Pres. J. T. 

 Withers had a collection of 218 dif- 

 ferent native plants, many of them 

 quite rare. As Mr. Withers is a thor- 

 ough botanist, he was able to select 

 and stage specimens to be the best ad- 

 vantage and as the common and sci- 

 entific names were on each variety it 

 created much interest. 



Contrary to all expectations there 

 were no "Jadoo" exhibits. Some very 

 fine crimson Rambler roses in pots 

 were seen about a month ago, that 

 were grown in a mixture of "Jadoo" 

 fiber and soil, but the plants had fin- 

 ished blooming by the time for the ex- 

 hibition. 



The society procured some very fine 

 chrysanthemum plants of J. N. May, 

 of Summit, N. J., and distributed them 



