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GARDEN AND WILD STUDIES. 



Both garden and wild flowers afford 

 a tempting variety in autumn. Natural 

 arrangements in these outside flowers and 

 foliage may serve two purposes with the 

 decorator. They are beautiful in them- 

 selves and valuable for what they are. 

 They also suggest like arrangements for 

 use later in the year, when nothing but 

 greenhouse stock is to be had. 



The first of our studies today is de- 

 cidedly rustic, but one which may be 

 easily adapted to other material and 

 seasons. Wild asters and golden-rod in 

 a bulb basket, which has been gilded, 

 tells the whole story. The lavender blue, 

 with the decided yellow of the golden- 

 rod softened by the gilding of the 

 basket, is a rather unusual, but none the 

 less desirable coloring. Because blue is 

 so rare is one reason why it should be 

 used, wherever it presents itself, in field, 

 pasture or garden. 



Upon close examination it will be ob- 

 served that these two kinds of flowers 

 are not mixed at random. A mass of 

 the aster flowers occupies the left side, 

 while the golden-rod sprays out over the 

 right edge, after its own fashion. 

 Neither are the two kinds of flowers 

 separated stolidly. Small sprays of one 

 mass approach the other, delicately at 

 first and then more decidedly, till the 

 two groups are connected. Threads of 

 color are knit back and forth till the two 

 wholes are united. 



This arrangement is especially suitable 

 for some of the numerous country club 

 affairs still going on. Once in a while 

 a florist has a call for just such a wild 

 piece of decoration. 



Half between the cultivated and the 

 wild, or rather a touch of each, is seen 

 in the lower study, which is a white 

 china bowl containing scabiosa in various 

 tints and shades of purple and pink, with 

 its own foliage and seed pods, supple- 

 mented by a branch of half ripe hops, 

 with a tinge of red appearing on the 

 green. 



One practice to which we do not edu- 

 cate ourselves and the public is that of 

 using with the flowers for the best pos- 

 sible effect, all the forms which the plant 

 produces at one stage or another of its 

 growth. Seed pods, buds and new foli- 

 age really belong to the complete color 

 scheme which envelops the plant life. 

 Like the color plan of a single flower, 

 there is in the plant as an individual, a 

 definite color plan which can be enjoyed 

 only as it is traced throughout the un- 

 folding of every part of the plant. The 

 red-green of the rose foliage is often cut 

 off a rose when its artistic value would 

 be much increased by retaining the at- 

 tractive bit of new growth. 



Gertrude Blair. 



RocKFORD, III.— H. W. Buckbee is 

 making arrangements to send a full 

 car-load of chrysanthemum plants and 

 cut flowers to the Chicago show. 



AN OPPORTUNITY. 



The public interest in floriculture 

 was never so great as at present, and, 

 as newspapers in general are giving 

 their readers what they want, the ed- 

 itors are only too glad to publish sen- 

 sible matter on plants and flowers, 

 every word of which is a direct help to 

 our trade. Every rightly managed 

 flower show is getting the hearty sup- 

 port of the newspapers of its city, and 

 the success of this year's shows prom- 

 ises to be far bej'ond all previous rec- 

 ords. An example of the advertising 

 which is beyond price, and for which 

 the trade is due to "make good" at 

 the show, is the following editorial 

 from the Chicago Tribune of October 

 19: 



The Chicago public has taken too little notire 

 o( the effort of the Chicago Horticultural Soci- 

 ety to Instill a love of flowers in the hearts of 

 the city's people. With Its yearly exhibitions 

 the society tries earnestly to impress the public 

 with the fact that Chicago Is the largest flower 

 market in the world, and, in proportion to its 

 size, the smallest consumer of flowers. Many 

 have been brought to know and appreciate flow- 

 ers through these exhibitions. Hitherto, how- 

 ever, lack of adequate space has hampered the 

 society in its efforts to do justice to Chicago's 

 pre-eminence in the floral world. This year the 

 exhibition will be held in the Coliseum. That 

 means there will be no lack of space. There 

 will be one and a half acres of flowers, and the 

 Chicagoan who falls to visit the Coliseum next 

 month will deprive himself of a rare treat, be- 



sides falling to lend bis encouragement to a 

 worthy enterprise. 



One new and interesting feature of this year's 

 exhibition will be the practical demonstrations 

 and instruction in flower culture for the city 

 family. Object lessons in the shape of model 

 back yards, lawns, and window boxes will be 

 supplemented by Instruction from expert garden- 

 ers, who will give the amateur accurate In- 

 formation on any subject within the scope of 

 flower growing. The persons who sigh for the 

 sight of a flower in the city need sigh no more 

 if they will but follow the experts' instruc- 

 tions. No one, not even the occupant of a city 

 flat, is 80 poor as to be without a window ledge. 



It is to be hoped that many Chlcagoana will 

 adopt for practical use the suggestions offered 

 at the exhibition. Also it is to be hoped that 

 Chicago will wake up and be a better patron of 

 Its flower industry. Chicago has sore need of 

 beauty. None of the things that men may 

 make to beautify the city can be compared 

 with the flowers that are grown here, and which 

 are shipped away. The "city beautiful" Is, of 

 course, a pleasant dream for the present, but a 

 spread of flower love will mean that the dream 

 is one step nearer its realization. Chicago 

 should use more of its flowers. 



MR. PETTIGREW IN EUROPE. 



[The conclusion of a lecture on "Park and 

 Garden Work In Europe," delivered before the 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston, Octo- 

 ber 17, by J. A. Pettlgrew, the major portion 

 of which appeared in last week's lievlew.] 



George Nicholson wrote me, at Queens- 

 town, to delay making any plans until 

 my arrival in London, when he would 

 be glad to assist in mapping out a route, 

 and, what was better, offered to accom- 

 pany me. This was beyond my expecta- 

 tion, and I gladly changed the plans I 

 had made and posted to London. He ap- 

 peared bright and early at my hotel, the 

 morning after my arrival. You will be 

 glad to hear that Mr. Nicholson is look- 

 ing remarkably well, and I can vouch for 

 his physical endurance, remembering how 

 he tested mine. What more could I de- 

 sire than Mr. Nicholson's congenial com- 

 panionship? Who could know the places, 

 the men and the things I wanted to see 

 better than he? 



While in London I called upon Wil- 



Scabioca and Hops in a White BowL 



