April 12, 1913 



HOETICULTUKE 



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Notice to New England Florists 



THE HOUSE OF RICE 



will have its 



Large Display of Memorial Day Goods 



at tiie QUINCY HOUSE in BOSTON 



From SATURDAY, APRIL 12th to SATURDAY, APRIL 19th 



MR. ROBERT SHOCK assisted by MR. S. EDELMAN wHl be there to show you 

 our extensive, attractive line of METAL GOODS, WAX DESIGNS, PREPARED 

 WREATHS, ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS, MAGNOLIA LEAVES: also COMMENCE- 

 MENT BASKETS. It win pay you to inspect our line before placing your order. 



1220 Race St. 



RICE CO. Philadelphia, Pa. 



Leading Florists Supply and Ribbon House 



with blue or gray, and purple shades 

 and white look well together. Pinks 

 and yellows selected with discrimina- 

 tion are very pleasing; assorted pinks 

 are better than one shade. American 

 Beauty rose looks its best combined 

 -with blue, lilac gray or yellow flowers 

 and ribbons. 



Some of the other pleasing combina- 

 tions of colors are red, violet and 

 orange; buff, gray and blue; buff and 

 yellow or orange with bronze foliage; 

 •crimson and lilac; crimson and azure; 

 crimson and orange; in fact, almost 

 any assortment of colors can be 

 blended, if the key is used, as easily 

 as the soft tones, and the ordinary 

 €ye will detect discord. Some of the 

 colors to avoid are pink and white. 

 In high-class work this combination is 

 overdone. He considers bronze or au- 

 tumn colors with orchid, violet and 

 pink very inharmonious. White rib 

 i)on is cold in effect; use cream-col- 

 ored ribbon. Really white flowers are 

 scarce. Blue is a color that is needed, 

 and he called for more of the deep 

 blue delphinium and larkspur, and the 

 "blue gladiolus, or any clear blue. 



The gist of his talk was for the 

 dealers in flowers to get out of the 

 ruts, especially the pink and white. 

 The flower buyers want novelty and 

 are willing to pay for it, but in the 

 flower shops they are presented with 

 the same old things season after sea- 

 son "until the heart is sick and the 

 "brain benumbed as well as the weary 

 liand." In other words, the dealers 

 in flowers standardize their business 

 on a few kinds. It is less work and 

 less bookkeeping to handle but a few 

 kinds, and perhaps it is all right com- 

 mercially for a time at least, but art 

 suffers and the real flower lovers are 

 denied their rights in being presented 

 with but a tithe of what Nature would 

 be willing and glad to give if only 

 asked. There are thousands of other 

 flowers beside roses, carnations and 

 chrysanthemums, but if you frequent 

 the flower shops you would scarcely 

 think so. 



Do not be afraid of using strong 

 colors; with a little harmony in the 

 arrangement they can be made very 

 striking and beautiful, and again in 

 our Pittsburgh modern house interiors 

 they are required. 



A rising vote of thanks with ap- 

 plause was given Mr. Breitenstein at 

 the conclusion of his demonstrations. 

 Most of the points he made he illus- 

 trated with the flowers before him, of 

 which a large collection had been 

 placed at his disposal by one of our 

 wholesalers and it is safe to say that 

 no more inspiring or thoughtful talk 

 has been given before the club in 

 years. 



It was suggested by the president 

 that the next meeting be held on the 

 second Tuesday of the month, instead 

 of the first, and that it be held in 

 the Herbarium at Carnegie Institute, 

 and that after the regular business 

 was transacted, we should inspect the 

 treasures of the Herbarium under the 

 expert guidance of Dr. Jennings in 

 charge, ladies to be welcome. This 

 met with approval and the next meet- 

 ing accordingly will be on May 13th, 

 Tuesday, 8 P. M. sharp, in the Her- 



barium of Carnegie Museum, Schenley 

 Park. 



Fine Dendrobium nobile and cypri- 

 pediums were on exhibition from the 

 Pittsburgh Bureau of Parks. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



M. Rice Co. report that the pros- 

 pects for an enormous sale of metal 

 goods for Decoration Day are very 

 promising. 



Visitors: Bert E. Brotherton, De- 

 troit, Mich.; W. C. Langbridge, Cam- 

 bridge, N. Y. ; Ed. Roehrs, Rutherford, 

 N. J.; C. B. Coe, Detroit, Mich.; J. 

 Frank Palmer, Van-Lindley Co., Greens- 

 boro, N. C. ; J. A. Pennypacker, Phoe- 

 nixville, Pa. 



NEWS NOTES. 



St. Peter, Minn. — G. H. Towley has 

 purchased the greenhouses of S. C. 

 Smith, who with his family have 

 moved to Rock Island, 111. 



New Iberia, La. — Louis Buchner has 

 started in business here as a gar- 

 dener. He was formerly in partner- 

 ship with Henry Kraak in the Nash- 

 ville Avenue Rose Garden, New Or- 

 leans, but this firm recently dissolved. 



HART MAKES HANDLES FOR POTS 



With Paper or Porto Rican Mats They Mafce Baskets. These 

 are the Well-Rnown HART'S HANDY HANDLES. 



Shipments are being: made daily eastward to Boston, 

 westward to San Francisco — and everywhere else. 

 Once used always used, because they are SO HANDY. 



Prices per dozen— No. 1, &2.50 ; No. 2, IJ.50 ; No. 3, 44.00 ; 

 No. 4, S5.00; N«. 5. 46.00. 



GEORGE B. HART, 24 Stone St., Rochester, N.Y 



