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January 10. 1907. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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nation with a variegated geranium it 

 has a most pleasing effect. This ver- 

 bena never needs to be put into pots. 

 Pricked out in flats, it does finely trans- 

 planted to the flower beds. ; 



Ferns for Window-boxes, 



For the last two seasons we have been 

 called on to fill many veranda-boxes with 

 plants of Boston and Scottii ferns alone. 

 Many people prefer the cool and grace- 

 ful fern fronds to flowering plants and 

 I think their taste is correct, so no foot 

 of bench-room should be left unoccupied. 

 Any corner where you can spread four 

 or five inches of soil should be filled 

 with young plants of these ferns. They 

 will make twice the growth they would 

 in pots. They can be lifted after Easter 

 and put into 5-inch pots and be estab- 

 lished by the middle of May. 



Easter Plants. 



We are having a dark, gloomy winter, 

 but not a cold one. Look out for that 

 new growth on your azaleas and keep 

 it rubbed off or it will take the strength 

 away from your flower buds, which will 

 come blind. It is much easier to re- 



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LUNCHEON FLOWERS. 



Often at luncheons and sometimes at 

 more formal affairs the flowers are, on 

 rising, distributed to the guests. The 

 flowers may be arranged so that they 

 may be taken apart into separate bou- 

 quets for distribution without trouble, 

 the stems of each bunch being wrapped 

 in tin foil, yet when all together they do 

 not look like separate bouquets. 



Another way in which they have been 

 presented to guests after a luncheon is 

 by being lightly and gracefully laid into 

 a fancy hamper-shaped basket. Delicate 

 sweet-scented flowers with adiantum are 

 charming when so brought in for a fare- 



Store of August F. Beyer. South Bend, Ind. 



well token. More persons can be easily 

 provided for in this way than in the 

 first, perhaps. 



It is sometimes an easy way to have 

 the guests on rising from table take 

 flowers with them. Not only one choice 

 rose laid for this purpose by each cover, 

 but flowers used as a border, or placed 

 flat upon the table in sprays. In this 

 case the waiters at the end of the lunch- 

 eon or dinner quickly turn the stems 

 toward each woman, so that she sees 

 that it is intended that all are to take 

 away the flowers and foliage used for 

 decorations. 



LAND OF THE FREE. 



vV. J. Palmer has been arrested on a 

 warrant sworn out by one Mabel Gilles- 

 pie, charged with violating the law pro- 

 hibiting the employment of child labor. 

 It appears that a school boy, under the 

 legal age for factory employment, 

 wanted some Christmas money and asked 

 Mr. Palmer for a job. He was set to 

 opening and closing the door for Christ- 

 mas shoppers. This may be the land of 

 the free, but it is apparent that the 

 interpretation of its multiplicity of laws 

 calls for the exercise of a little common 

 sense. 



AN INDIANA STORE. 



On ijiis page are two illustrations 

 reproduced from photographs recently 

 made of the store of August F. Beyer, 

 at South Bend, one of the busy and 

 growing cities of Indiana. Mr. Beyer is 

 one of the oldest florists in Indiana and 

 the store is in charge of his son, Paul, 

 who is well up in store management, hav- 

 ing spent several years with leading Chi- 

 cago retailers, including the Geo. Witt- 

 bold Co., which handles any kind of an 

 order, from filling a fern dish to sodding 

 a lawn, from selling a boutonniere to deco- 



tard your Easter azaleas now than it is 

 the latter end of March, and sorts like 

 Mme. Vander Cruyssen should be kept 

 only a few degrees above freezing. Don 't 

 be scared; an azalea will endure any- 

 thing above actuial freezing. 



Japan lilies intended for Easter will 

 now need 65 degrees at night. It is 

 only eleven weeks now until the great 

 feast of lilies and the weeks quickly 

 slip by. Why there is need of hurry is 

 because we will not have two or three 

 weeks of bright April weather to help 

 us out at the end of our efforts. Squirt 

 a weak solution of nicotine into the 

 crowns of the plants every two weeks 

 and that will keep down the aphis. 



William Scott. 



Beatrice, Neb. — The Dole Floral Co. 

 advertises that "while dumping manure 

 has been forbidden in many parts of the 

 city, they will furnish a dumping ground 

 for all. People who have refuse of this 

 character can drive in near the green- 

 house and find a dumping ground." It 

 brings them much valuable fertilizer. 



Store of August F. Beyer, Soutfi Bend, Ind. 



