SHOWING CUT FLOWERS AT FAIRS. 



were also in the market two sets of new 

 peas sold in mixed packets one called 

 Flambeau seed lings by Rev. W.T. Hutch- 

 ing, containing about half a dozen varie- 

 ties all good but not of special merit. The 

 other Burpee's American seedlings of 

 much higher quality and greater variety, 

 some of them well worthy of names, and 

 will no doubt be offered separately next 

 season as new varieties. Among them 

 were some very fine pinks and salmons, 

 notably one like Venus in color, but 

 much larger and finer form. 



The introduction of so many fine 

 varieties of which at least a dozen are 

 worthy of a place among the best 24 

 sorts, makes necessary a revision of the 

 lists of best varieties recommended in 

 the January Horticulturist. As a 

 result of my experience this season, if 

 limited to 12 kinds I would grow the 

 following : — 



Blanche Burpee, white ; Golden 

 Gleam, primrose ; Coquette, primrose 

 and lavender; Princess May, lavender: 

 Katherine Tracy and Prima Donna, 

 pink ; Aurora, Ramona and America, 

 striped; Maid of Honor, white and laven- 

 der ; Mars, red ; Stanley, maroon. 



For a second twelve I would add the 

 Bride, white ; Little Dorrit, rose pink 

 and white ; Alice Eckford, creamy white 

 and pink ; Countess of Aberdeen and 

 Lovely, pink ; Duchess of York, white 

 flushed pink ; Day Break, red and white 

 striped ; Lottie Eckford, white and 

 lilac ; New Countess, lavender ; Lardy 

 Beaconsfield, salmon pink and primrose ; 

 Venus, salmon pink ; Senator, chocolate 

 and white striped. 



R. B. Whvte. 



Ottawa. 



SHOWING CUT FLOWERS AT FAIRS. 



THE cuts shown herewith give a hint 

 as to a practical method of show- 

 ing cut flowers at fairs, its special 

 feature being the possibility of keeping 

 the flowers in water, and still having 



flowers can be passed into the little flat 

 tin broma, or cocoa cans that are glued 

 to the back of the paper just below each 

 opening, as shown in Fig. 1244. These 

 cans are water-tight. At the front, be- 

 low each opening, can be written or 

 printed the name of the flowers above, 

 with any information that may be de- 

 sired. Such a frame will do duty for 

 many years, for on each new occasion 

 for its use a sheet of thin white or neu- 

 tral-tinted paper can be pasted over the 

 face and openings cut in it. — American 

 Agriculturist. 



KiG. 1-243. 



them where they can be most readily 

 seen. A frame of laths is covered with 

 stout white paper — heavy drawing paper 

 being suitable for this purpose. Oval 

 openings are made, as seen in Fig. 1243, 

 through which the stems of the cut 



Fig. 1244. 



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