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Mabch 7, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



116\ 



Gates Ajar by J. W. Ross, Centralia, 111. 



THE GATES AJAR. 



The accompanying illustration is re- 

 produeed from a photograph of a gates 

 ajar, both glorified and simplified ^by 

 J. W. Ross, of Centralia, 111. The piece 

 stood thirty-eight inches high and was 

 twenty-eight inches wide. The loose 

 treatment adds immensely to the at- 



tractiveness of the design; indeed, in it 

 the solid design usually made can hardly 

 be recogaized. The flowers used were 

 Bride and Bridesmaid roses, callas. Pa- 

 per Whites and valley, the flowers from 

 some unsold Christmas azaleas being em- 

 ployed in the gates, for the design was 

 made December 29, 



A few makers of excellent funeral 



work still employ the old, solid style of 

 construction, but the newer idea is a 

 loose form. It takes rather better flow- 

 ers, but not so many of them, and tho 

 effect -is of a larger and much more ar- 

 tistic piece. The solid design gives 

 the impression of being a mechanical 

 creation instead of the work of an 

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