The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Decejibeu a, 18SC? 



upon them and be satisfied. But it 

 would seem that these must be minor 

 points. Neither can it be urged that 

 "once seen, always the same;" we have 

 never heard of the "public" tiring of the 

 cherry trees and the apple lioughs, 

 though they exhibit the same bloom, in 

 the same setting, every Slay; they rave 

 over the scarlet and gold of the maples 



ures so absolutely necessary- to an Ameri- 

 can chrysanthemum show; and year after 

 year the British public has turned out 

 and enjoyed with perennial enthusiasm 

 the "I2's" and "24's" and "48's" of 

 Chinese, or Japanese arranged flat on 

 boards without sign of stem or foliage; 

 year after year the)- fight anew the battle 

 of the "true-incuri-ed" and its .spurious 



Arrangement ot Plants. 



each succeeding October; has the "ad- 

 mission fee," anything to do with the 

 "success" of nature's exhibitions? 



Over in England the National Chr>-san- 

 themum Society has just given its 51st 

 exhibition; judging by the printed re- 

 ports it has eclipsed all former efforts 

 and we suppose that it has been a "suc- 

 cess" as nothing has been said to the 

 contrani-; neither is anything said in any 

 of the various reports as to the attend- 

 ance, the admission fee, the advertising, 

 the decorations, or any of the other feat- 



half-brother; although they were shown 

 last year a beautiful example of the 

 American stjde of arranging long stems 

 in vases, with which, we judge, they were 

 mightily pleased, by no means do we 

 find them throwing their boards to the 

 woodpile in 1897. 



It would seem that English flower- 

 lovers are not chasing novelty and variet}- 

 in tlieir shows. We wish that Mr. C. 

 Harman Pa^-ne, or one of the large ex- 

 hibitors, could give us a little insight 

 into the modn^ operandi oii\\e "sucee.ss" 



of the English shows; we would also like 

 to hear from the spokesman of the "Big 

 4" of Chicago: Chadwick, Egan, Rudd, 

 and Anthony, who certainly are to be 

 heartily congratulated on their recent 

 achievement. 



One thing is certain, the florists mu.st 

 Jiot tire of their efforts to make the fall 

 .shows a success. We nmst all make the 

 matter a study and we shall finally solve 

 the problem. We cannot allow it to go 

 unsolved without loss to the trade and a 

 ilistinct less to the public as well. Many 

 people who are not yet true lovers of 

 flowers for the flower's sake, are still 

 buyers of flowers for fashion's sake, and 

 will continue to decorate their rooms and 

 dress their tables just as long as they are 

 the style, and there is nothing like the 

 flower show to bring the best and newest 

 to the notice of the people, so that our 

 problem resolves itself into the simple 

 question of how shall we get the people 

 generally to attend our floral festivals ? 

 E. G. HiLt,. 



The TWO "stars" of the past chrysan- 

 themum season were the new white, 

 Frank Hauiy, and the new yellow, Penn- 

 s^-lvania. Both scored very high with 

 the connnittees of the Chrysantliemum 

 Society of America and will undoubtedly 

 take a high place in the list of the really 

 useful commercial varieties. 



NOVEL PLANT ARRANGEMENT. 



Our illustration represents a very ex- 

 quisite creation by the well-known Fifth 

 avenue florist, Mr. George Stumpp, New- 

 York, and is gotten up specially for the 

 Thanksgiving and Chri.stmas trade. 



It comprises a handsome basket (of any 

 design, lined with tin), somew-hat deeper 

 than the ordinary flower basket, filled 

 with plants (in or out of pot), standing 

 on a bamboo or gilt pedestal entwined 

 either with smilax or asparagus. 



The cost of producing such a basket 

 depends entirely on the material used, 

 and it can be filled either with cheap or 

 expensive plants, though the more \-a- 

 riety the better, so long as colors are har- 

 monious. 



The plants used, as seen in the ex- 

 ample, are: Center-piece, Pandanus 

 Veitchii (6-inch pot), Areca lute.scens 

 (5-inch pot), Cocos Weddelliana (4- 

 iuch pot), w-hile the balance are well se- 

 lected and pretty green and foliage plants, 

 and include 3-inch ferns, Maranta bi- 

 color, Tradescantia Reginae, Ophiopo- 

 gon jaburum, Peperomia argroneura, 

 and the dainty variegated grass Poa Chi- 

 nensis variegata; the trailing plant seen 

 is Veronica radicans variegata, and here 

 and there among the plants and on the 

 handle of the basket are placed small 

 branches of the red "bird-berry," a va- 

 riety of Crataegus indigenous to New York 

 State, the whole surmounted by a bow of 

 white ribbon; at Christmas a crimson one 

 adds richness and warmth to the w-hole. 

 As mentioned before, if a pedestal is 

 used smilax or asparagus has a delicate 

 effect. 



No two baskets need be made alike, 

 and "variet)- is the spice," as in all of 

 this work. The following plants may be 

 used to good purpose: "Colored" dra- 



