March 7, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



1161 



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



THE GATES AJAR. 



'J lie ;ircniii|iaiiviiij^ illiist i:iti<iii is lo- 

 prodiH-vil I'ldiii u ])l)ot(><;rajili oT a >;ates 

 ajar, tiolii t^lorifiod ami sini|)li(}e(l liy 

 .1. W. ii'ns<. (if t'ontralia, ill. The piece 

 stdoil thirty I'jnlit inches lii^h r. '1 was 

 twenty fioht inches wide. The .loose 

 Ire.atinent adds ininieiis\>l\ In the al- 



t lact iveness ol liie dosiirn ; in<leed, in it 

 the solid design usually made can hardly 

 ho recognized. The tlowcrs used were 

 liride and Jiridvsinaid roses, callas. Pa- 

 per Whites and \alley. the flowers from 

 some unsold (Jhristmas a/.aleas Iteiny- em- 

 ployed in the gates, lor the design was 

 made Dr-ecndier '_".•. 



.■\ few makers of eNcdli'iit funeral 



work still employ the ohj,- solid stylo of 

 construction, but tlKi/ncwcr idea is a 

 loose form. It takes rather better flow- 

 ers, but nut vii many of them, .and the 

 ctfi'rt is ol a l;ir^iT and nimh moi'O ar- 

 tist ie [tiecc. The s.dirj design gives 

 the impression of lieing a mechanical 

 i-reation irste.-hl of tlio wruk ^if an 

 "artist." 



