May 4, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



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THE RETAIL 



FLORIST 



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TWO BASKET STUDIES. 



In teacliiiig 



Expressions of Thought. 



cliidren to read an in- 

 slructor often follows a plan soniethins 

 like this: She holds up an object, a 

 liook, for example, and asks, "What is 

 this?" Suiiie child is allowed lo an- 

 swer, "a book." "Yes," says the 

 teacher, "Willie says this is a book. 

 Now there are other things that can talk, 

 besides little boys. But they do not al- 

 ways talk in .just the same way. To 

 liear Willie talk you must listen. To 

 hear this jiicee of crayon talk yon must 

 look at the blackboard. This crayon is 

 going to talk, and it will say just what 

 Willie was saying. Watch, it is .saying 

 'Hook.' " Antl therewith she writes or 

 prints the word "book" on the black- 

 boanl. After frequent drill tho-pnj)ils 

 are first able to recoginze the printed or 

 v.ritten wdnl and later to make their 

 own pencils say "book." 



Precisely as the child begins to find 

 out different ways of expressing thought 

 is the student in designing to learn what 

 is said by certain positions of stems and 

 stalks and combinations of the same- 

 Circular lines mean something; they 

 give you a certain sensation, whether you 

 notice it or not; straight lines suggest 

 difl'erent ideas to the mind and abrupt 

 and angular arrangements are not as 

 often adaiiveil as your eyes fall ujion 

 thcni. 



'i'liejc is a season why a wild patch of 

 oak woods is more attractive and rest- 

 ful to the eye than a grove of Lonibar'ly 

 poplars planted in straight rows, so many 

 rods long by so many yards wide. Com- 

 jiare the two in winter, when the bare 

 trunks and limbs are far enough in the 

 distance to appear as lines. The long 

 curves of the oak branches seem to be 

 reaching out to grasp at some unseen 

 object, and to afford shelter in the 

 shorter decided lines. The straight, 

 abrupt limits of tho poplar frown 

 severely, and when multiplied by ♦ens in 

 regular rows the aggregation fairly dis- 

 turbs your sense of restfubiess and se- 

 curity. This is what tliesc ditferent 

 lines' and .sets of lines are saying as the 

 child or the crayon said "book." In 

 other words, there is an e.\prcs-inn of 

 tlnnight in each. 



Xiiw to 1h? very ])raclical. _.ou have an 

 order to fill .a cream-colored liraid basket 

 with r.ri(lesmaid roses. There are at 

 least two ways in whi<di you may execute 

 tho wnrk. You may fill and liiu:- the bas- 

 ket with moss an<l fin foil, fasten the 

 same in with your green tying thread, 

 lay on a backgrtiund of ferns I'r green 

 moss over the sphagnum, ami be ready 

 to put the roses in. You may, if you 

 j)lease. l.'iy out the roses and cut them 

 all alwut the average length of eight 

 inches, sti'ni them on whole picks and 

 insert them into the sphagnum upward, 

 downward, outward, with the result that 



you have a ]iroduction with about as 

 nuich expression as a well inhabited [lin 

 cushion. Or, if you arc so inclined, vdu 

 may stem your roses at about the length 

 you find them, set in the larger an. I 

 "stronger ones in a well defined cluster 

 about one side of the handle, wii'e ihcni 

 closely to the handle to hold them in 

 place," fill in the body of tlie liaskci 

 closely enough so that some will aiipear 

 to be crowiiing others sn that tliey f:ill 

 far out over the edge, and lini-li I lie de- 

 sign with a cluster on llic iippusitc side 

 oTthe handle, whicii falls in muavd the 

 upright cluster first inserted; and ninety- 

 nine cases to line ynur jiatron is pleasi'd 

 with the latter efi'ort, wliicii. wr tlattrr 



point it repeats the effect at regular 



intervals all the way around. 



\,d)or|y cares for a lopsided rose, re- 

 uardlessof bcantifnl I'oloring or per- 



r,,riic. -V sei 1 clement in a properly 



,■1 11 a aged floral design is its synunetry, 

 'I I illustrate this iirincijde k'o the clus- 

 of roses at opiiosite sides of 



teis 



the 



illustration. The 



is filled low and 



w for good effect 



clusters of roses 



f the basket and 



I'asket in the second 

 Imdy of the baskel 

 lonsely, almost too I 

 ill the ]iictnre. Tall 

 start at either siile > 

 follow the hiindle more thatt half-way 

 ii|i, being secured in place as was just 

 described for the (list basket. The eol- 

 miiig is a somewhat iimisiial one. The 

 l.askT't is a terra cotta red. better de- 

 -erilieil as )iri(d; red. Tlio roses are 

 Kaiserins, with a mere touch of yellow 

 'stock and Asi>:ir;igiis plmnosiis. 



While the general appearance of those 

 clusters of roses is symmetrical they 

 are not exactly the same size and height. 

 It is not necessary to hold extictly to 

 tlh^e proportions. Make the general ap- 

 I I artiiico symmetrical. 



l-atlier of these baskets may be filled 

 uitli a ilisii holding water in which the 





A Well-Filled Presentation Basket of Roses. 



ourselves, has sumo .■xjircssion. the <lis 

 covery of which we lea\e to the discrim- 

 inating roiider. See the illustration on 

 this page. 



When dwelling ujton tlw beauty of a 

 perfectly formed elm tree, or a well 

 grown Araucaria exc-els;i, I'uo element 

 which appeals to the eye is the ajppar- 

 ently symmetrical form. A jirojc-tion 

 on one side is balanced by a like pro 

 jcction on the opposite side. Where ;i 

 graceful whirl of jdne needles 



lies droops at | 



llowcrs are put, or filled with moss as de- 

 scribed tibove, as occasion requires. A 

 third method is nifher more satisfactory 

 tor a hasty order. It is this: Set the 

 sidt^ (dusters agtiinst the handle in the 

 ( inpty basket. Fasten to the handles to 

 ■•ecurc in jdtico. Fill in moss around the 

 stems like soil around the roots of a 

 jilant. Sot in the flower stems in the 

 body of the basket and proceed in the 

 same way to fill the basket with moss 

 and llowers at the smiie time. G. B. 



