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PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE. 



York's biggest millionaires was dying, he requested that 

 no flowers should deck his bier. Then the toadies to 

 wealth the flunkies of fashion took the cue, and there 



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Fig. 53. FUNERAL DESIGN OF 1887. 



was for years a standing protest against funeral flowers 

 from the fashionable world. But the fiat was not suffi- 

 cient to stop all use of flowers to deck the dead, for the 

 "common people" revolted. The hearts of sympathiz- 



