October 17, 1901. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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THE RETAIL 

 '^^^^^ FLORIST 



quires more ability to arrange; others, 

 we are sorry to say, who fail to see any 

 beauty or adaptability in it; neverthe- 

 less this material is going to be much 

 more in use the coming season because 

 there is nothing to equal it. The pub- 

 lic have had such a severe dose of crepe 

 paper that the very sight of it is nau- 

 seating, yet considerable will be used 

 because anything is preferable to a 

 dirty plant pot. In Porto Riean mat- 

 ting we have a chance to display ar- 

 tistic ability, and when properly studied 

 out and carefully used it will be found 

 to be much cheaper than crepe paper. 



Various ways of using the Potto Rican Matting. 



flower trimmings which we hope will 

 be of interest to many of our readers. 

 This set was arranged by the well- 

 known firm of M. Rice & Co., Phila- 

 delphia, whose beautiful exhibit at the 

 Buffalo convention elicited so much 



small part of the possibilities in this 

 material. 



Now, there are a groat many retail 

 florists who are averse to the use of 

 Porto Rican matting, because it costs 

 twice as much as crepe paper and re- 



I'hc great trouble with every claimant 

 to fashion or popular favor is that they 

 are overdone. 



A good plant or flower needs very lit- 

 tle, if any, trimming; the poor or av- 

 erage stock, which constitutes 75 per 



