■■rKy^-y'yr^''r^^._^-ry^i^~ritX''-":,^< ■■'■X'^-:^ ; •'"■ 



April 13, 190S. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



1217 



Lilium Harrisii, the Typical Flower of the Florists' Harvest Season. 



By placing the scarlet carnation 

 against the crimson rose, the color of 

 the rose is actually dulled and almost 

 deadened, "killed" as the common ex- 

 pression has it. By comparisons of this 

 kind it will become easier to avoid such 

 combinations as bronze galax leaves and 

 violets; pinks and blues, unless the blue 

 be very dark and the pink light; pink 

 and bright yellow; very dark blackish 

 red with white; dark red or crimson 

 with violet or purple; searlet and pink; 

 but rather you will select grey with vio- 

 let, or white and grey; crimson and light 

 pink. Grey as found in Florida moss, 

 dusty miller leaves, carnation foliage, 

 and birch bark combines well with vio- 

 let, scarlet or light pink, as found re- 

 spectively in violets, and purple hya- 

 cinths, brilliant red carnations or sal- 

 vias, Bridesmaid roses or Enchantress 

 carnations. 



For, a change try tyiiig funeral sprays 

 with material to match the foliage or 

 harmomze with it, as well as with the 

 flower. Tind suggestions for coloring on 

 the under side of leaves and stems. 

 Bind a double bunch of Enchantress or 

 Lawson carnations with a simple band 

 of birch bark three or four inches wide, 

 or a wisp of Florida moss. 



In arranging funeral sprays of two 

 colors, do not lay down a flower of one 

 color and then one of another in turn. 

 Make blotches and streaks of color. Run 

 one color into another in thin lines. This 

 will blend the two. The first method, of 

 one and another, makes a patchy piece. 



Upon being compelled to use colors to- 

 gether which you dislike, it is often 

 possible to tone down one color by lay- 

 ing delicate green foliage over it, such 

 as adiantum or asparagus. Separate the 

 fighting colors at opposite ends or sides 

 of the cluster or design. 



A little used combination is crimson 

 and gold. Make this by combining Me- 

 teor or Liberty roses with Narcissus in- 

 comparabilis or some of the light colored 

 single varieties. . 



A vase or basket of different varieties 

 of narcissi is attractive and salable. 

 Grade the color from the brilliant yellow 

 of the Von Sion into the jonquil yellow 

 and from that through the soft single 



varieties of incomparabilis, poeticus and 

 Paper "White. 



Freesia, white and yellow tulips and 

 narcissi are pleasing, as is a cluster of 

 blue or white Dutch hyacinths with a 

 band of yellow pansies over the stem 

 end of the bunch. 



Avoid the brilliant but not the dark 

 somber colors for funerals. Scarcely 

 enough distinction is made in common 

 practice between blues and purples. The 

 one difference between these colors is 

 that the latter have red in their make- 

 up, which the blues lack. In window and 

 store displays of plants which are now 

 baing made, of cinerarias, for instance, 

 be careful to separate the purplish reds 

 from the blues. Each will show to bet- 

 ter advantage alone. Separate by plac- 

 ing one group at the front of the win- 

 dow or display space and the other at 

 the back. Ferns or the foliage plants or 

 some white flower in bloom will serve 

 as a partition between these fighters. 



Nowadays we are having blue pansies 

 and blue Dutch hyacinths which, with 

 white, are appropriate for a funeral 

 piece, and a change from the all win- 

 ter's pink and white repetitions. 

 Avoid yellow with cinerarias and cycla- 

 mens except when the former are a pure 

 blue, and if any yellow is introduced 

 with the blue cineraria let it be of a 

 mild type, as is seen in the light narcissi, 

 or Perle roses. Narcissus poeticus or 

 Chinese lilies. 



Cyclamens, with their purplish pinks 

 and reds, should be kept at a respectful 

 distance from such a pink as is seen in 

 Azalea Vervseneana. Treat the primulas 

 the same way. Gertrude Blaik. 



GEN. PALMER'S MUNIFICENCE. 



John Berry has left the Park Floral 

 Co., Denver, after having been with it 

 continuously for about seven years. He 

 has been in charge of the outdoor work 

 in the landscape line, and now goes to 

 accept a position as superintendent of 

 Monument park, at Colorado Springs. 

 This is a park which is being made 

 from an unsightly strip of ground in 

 the center of Colorado Springs, includ- 



ing Monument Creek and its banks, and 

 is the property of General Wm. J. Pal- 

 mer, one of the founders of Colorado 

 Springs and one of its wealthiest citi- 

 zens. He is spending a great many 

 thousands of dollars in the improvement 

 of this particular piece of ground, 

 with the intention of deeding it to the 

 city when it has been transformed into 

 a park. 



The General's home at Glen Eyrie, 

 about five miles from Colorado Springs, 

 is probably the most beautiful mountain 

 home in Colorado. A new residence has 

 just been completed there at an ex- 

 pense of about $400,000. The landscape 

 work there has been carried out strictly 

 in accordance with the ideas of Gen. 

 Palmer himself. He absolutely insists 

 that no native shrub or flower of any 

 description shall be destroyed to make 

 room for artificial planting. He has in- 

 sisted that nature shall be assisted, but 

 that the natural beauty shall never be 

 destroyed. He seems willing to spend 

 thousands of dollars to carry out his 

 own peculiar ideas, and this is well il- 

 lustrated when it is said that in building 

 the new house at Glen Eyrie the rock 

 was quarried from the canon walls, but 

 only so much of it was taken as had a 

 natural exposure to the weather and was 

 covered with moss and lichens. The 

 rules strictly forbade rolling or sliding 

 these down the slope, but every piece 

 was carefully carried down in the 

 hands of the workmen and laid in the 

 walls of the house, so that the walls now 

 present a moss-covered appearance as 

 if the house had been there for cen- 

 turies. 



A tunnel has been constructed sloping 

 upward through the mountain to a point 

 perhaps 500 feet above the house, and 

 through this all smoke, all the odors 

 from the kitchen, and even the dust 

 from the patent sweeping machines are 

 carried to the top of the mountain where 

 they give no annoyance. 



The work is by all odds the most con- 

 scientious and the most expensive piece 

 of work of I its kind which has ever 



/' 



