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The Florists' Review 



Deckmbbr 3, 1914. 



making them up in two separate pieces, 

 but looking as though in one. 



When Mr. Schling put a figure in his 

 window showing the tango bouquet it 

 quickly caught on. Speaking of the 

 materials used, Mr. Schling said: "In 

 winter we utilize violets, sweet peas, 

 rose buds, gardenias, lily of the valley, 

 cattleyas, cypripediums, pansies and 

 almost any other kind of small flowers 

 and we always find our patrons well 

 satisfied. We can arrange just as 

 pretty sprays with fewer flowers, where 

 the patron wants to save, and we can 

 also make something elaborate where 

 the price is not considered. But the 

 main fact stands that all patrons are 

 satisfied, no matter wha^Kfehey spend, 

 and our corsage business is steadily 

 increasing. 



''This new corsage we use at wed- 

 dings where the bride carries a prayer 

 book with a shower, which could not 

 possibly be made as showy as a bouquet 

 would be. For dinners, balls or recep- 

 tion^, where the flowers are often in 

 the way; we have no more complaints 

 that dresses get spoiled. One can al- 

 ways afford to have a corsage and even 

 if there are not so many orders as we 

 used to have at the higher prices, the 

 wearing of corfeaige bouquets is becom- 

 iSg more and more general and we 

 notice on our books a substantial in- 

 tirease in sales." 



Another florist has devised a tango 

 bouquet that is worn on the lady's arm, 

 He makes it a bit flatter, narrower and 

 longer than ordinary corsage arrange- 

 ments, with the stems carefully wrapped 

 with ribbon and covered by the flowers. _ 

 Bibbons are sewed into the bouquet- 

 so that they can be passed around the 

 arm and tied in such a way as to hold 

 the flowers close to the outer side of 

 the arm between the elbow and the 

 shoulder. The bunch must be light 

 and the stems reduced to the minimum, 

 but it makes a taking dance arrange- 

 ment — conspicuous, and the beau and 

 the bouquet do not come in contact. 



With the dancing season now on, 

 there will be much good new business 



A Tango Bouquet, Shoulder Style, Made of Rose Buds. 



for the florist with ingenuity enough 

 to work up a tango bouquet that will 

 meet the situation as it already has 

 been met by some of those who use 

 their heads as well as their hands in 

 ; rtinning their ^ower stores. 



Christmas or even as late as February. 

 I have not included peonies, because 

 nothing would be gained by planting 

 them until next fall. C. ^^jB. 



ODCN LETTER^^" DEADER6. 



OUTDOOE STOCK FOR CUTTING. 



The .Review's information has always 

 been so helpful to me that I can't re- 

 sist the impulse to "butt in" when I 

 feel that an unsatisfactory answer has 

 been given to a question. I refer to a 

 letter from E. H. in The Review of 

 November 26, asking what to plant on 

 an acre of land in order to have cut 

 flowers for funeral work and the market 

 when greenhouse stock is short. The 

 answer sounds like a page from a seed 

 catalogue rather than from personal ex- 

 perience. E. H. does not specify peren- 

 nials and yet the entire list is com- 

 posed of perennials, most of which 

 would give no results before the summer 

 of 1916. 



Were I planting an acre for such a 

 purpose, I should prepare my ground 

 now, making trenches for sweet peas, 

 so that they could be put in early in 



the spring. I should plant them in rows 

 running north and south on the east 

 end of my land. Next to them I should 

 have dahlias, then gladioli, then lilies — 

 a great many, of different varieties, 

 as nothing sells • better for funeral 

 work. Next I should have iris — German 

 and Japanese; not too many — then an- 

 tirrhinums, mignonette, hardy chrysan- 

 themums, pyrethrums, Shasta daisies 

 (Alaska), delphiniums — the Chinense is 

 especially good for funeral work, tfie 

 gold medal hybrids and Belladonna/for 

 cut flowers. Dianthus pinks and gail- 

 lardias might be used, but I have not 

 found them as good sellers as some 

 others. Outdoor asters have been a 

 poor crop with us for a number of 

 years, but if well grown will always 

 sell. 



All of these perennials will bloom 

 next summer if seed is sown soon after 



THE BOSES OF THE FUTURE. 



In a recent issue of The Review 1 

 note a paragraph which reads as fol- 

 lows: "What do you think would hap- 

 pen to the price of other roses if some- 

 one should send out a variety of the 

 size of Russell and the floriferousness 

 of Killarney? Wouldn't such a variety 

 make everything else unprofitable?" 



Now, I am at a loss to know why 

 rosarians have not already bred roses 

 of this capacity, with the added quali- 

 ties of hardiness, resistance to rust and 

 mildew, etc. The time is not far dis- 

 tant when we shall see such wonderful 

 progress as The Review's query points 



to. In the breeding of gladioli, hemeriT"^*' 



callis, corn, etc., I have observed cer- 

 tain principles and results that go much 

 farther into the aspects of breeding 

 than the questionable Mendelian law. 

 If the good Abbe Mendel had first read 

 Darwin, he might have gone deeper 

 nd seen some things differently. 



With the roses now in hand, and with 

 the employment of the methods or prin- 

 ciples we have, there is no reason why 

 we should not see roses and other plants 

 with the maximum of desirable quali- 

 ties. In the culture of the hemerocallis 

 there has been remarkable improve- 

 ment in size, color, freedom and hardi- 

 ness, and the season of bloom has been 

 greatly extended. The gladiolus has be- 



