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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



OCTOBIBS 10, 190V. 



Bide of the piece the wire eads catch 

 on everything and also scratch the top 

 of the casket or furniture. 



After tying the first row of flowers 

 in place, work along just as yOu would 

 in making a flat bunch. Asparagus 

 Bprengeri is a nice green to use in 

 connection with chrysanthemums. Do 

 not use this too sparingly, as the green 

 adds much to the appearance of any 

 floral work. Arrange the flowers as 

 loosely as you can, at the same time 

 giving a nice square shape to the gen- 

 eral outline of your design. 



Work from each end of the frame 

 toward the center. As you near the 

 center, avoid having the stems meet or 

 hunch up in one place. Keep the stems 

 as flat as you can and stick them out 

 of sight underneath the flowers opposite. 

 You may experience a little trouble in 

 finishing up nicely at first, but after 

 a little practice it will be hard for even 

 yourself to find where you finished. 



As I said before, almost any flower 

 can be worked up nicely into a panel 

 or cover. Large and small .flowers can 

 also be used nicely in the same piece; 

 as, for instance, valley with roses, carna- 

 tions or BO on. Sweet peas and some 

 larger flower also work well together, 

 and even lilies and some such flower as 

 the rose will harmonize well. 



The same rule holds good here as in 



panels used in place of a casket cover. 

 A very elaborate floral design can be 

 made by fastening a panel to an easel. 

 When it is to be used in this way, more 

 care must be exercised in fastening the 

 flowers to the frame, so that each one 

 will stay in its proper place. 



It is not necessary that a panel bo 

 always made entirely of flowers. On 

 the contrary, very elaborate ones can be 

 made in different ways. Galax leaves 

 come in very conveniently for this pur- 

 pose. In a piece of this style it will, 

 of course, be necessary that you moss 

 your frame. After you have procured 

 a frame of suitable size, use either 

 paper, foil or fern leaves to keep the 

 moss from falling through the frame 

 and to serve as a background for the 

 design. It is absolutely necessary that 

 you consider the back, as this shows 

 plainly after the panel is fastened to 

 the easel. Many are careless in this 

 respect, but it pays to use something 

 that will not detract from the appear- 

 ance of the design. A good plan is 

 to lay some fern leaves between the 

 paper or foil and the frame, thus giving 

 a nice, finished effect. Next lay enough 

 moss on top of the paper so that after 

 it is drawn into place and tied it will 

 be about an inch and a quarter thick, 

 or just full enough to hokl the picks 

 or fern-pins well. In tying the moss 



B. Abrahamton and the Garibaldi breath. 



sprays as to the mixing of too many 

 varieties of flowers together. Too much 

 of. a mixture never looks well, whether 

 rt be in a spray, a panel or a cover. 



A Paiul as a Floral Dciign. 



The foregoing description is for 



into place, be sure to use string of a 

 color that will look in keeping with the 

 back of the panel. 



Your design is now ready for the 

 decorations, which we will assume are 

 to be galas, roses and lily of the valley. 



Cover the whole piece with bronze 



galax leaves, using fern-pins for fasten- 

 ing the leaves. Begin at the edge and 

 work toward the center. Use only good 

 leaves and enough bo that the fern-pins 

 will not show. Do not spoil your de- 

 sign by using poor leaves just to save 

 a few pennies. After you have the 

 moss all nicely covered, make a border 

 of flowers around the outside of the 

 panel about two inches from the edge. 

 First lay some smilax on the leaves, 

 fastening it with a few fern-pins; this 

 will be your guide. Then stem some 

 white roses on toothpicks, leaving the 

 stems of the roses about two to three 

 inches long. The most open roses should 

 be stemmed the shortest. Arrange these 

 roses along the smilax; in other words, 

 form a garland of roses. 



Now make a loose spray of lily of the 

 valley and white roses for the center 

 space, just large enough so it will not 

 look crowded. Fasten this spray to the 

 panel with some wire, having it ex- 

 tend from the lower left-hand to the 

 upper right-hand corner. A suitable 

 bow will add much to the appearance 

 of the whole. 



Another fine piece is made by taking 

 the same panel of galax and fastening 

 a nicely made cross, anchor or other 

 design into place on it. A design when 

 used in this way should be made all 

 white and as plain as you can. If 

 the panel is large enough you can use 

 a garland around the edge in the same 

 manner as with the spray, but try to 

 avoid having the panel look crowded. 

 Several small bunches, each containing 

 about six or nine roses or carnations, 

 fastened in the corners, also produce a 

 very pretty effect. 



Green galax leaves can also be used 

 in the same way as the bronze. A 

 spray or design with a touch of pink 

 will go very nicely with the green leaves. 



You will find that a panel constructed 

 according to the foregoing directions 

 makes as fine a looking design as your 

 best class of customers may wish for. 

 By falling hack on your own imagination 

 you can, of course, make up an almost 

 endless variety of panels. 



Next week I will tell about the casket 

 cover proper, illustrating a moderate 

 priced one. Huoo ScHROETER. 



GARIBALDI'S WREATH. 



The Italian population on the south- 

 west side of Chicago is .large and each 

 year Garibaldi day is celebrated by every 

 native of sunny Italy. Each year the 

 statue of Garibaldi in Lincoln park is 

 decorated with dozens of floral emblems 

 sent by the Italian societies, in 1907 the 

 flowers representing an expenditure of 

 probably $2,000. The accompanying illus- 

 tration is from a photograph of a wreath 

 six feet in diameter made by B. Abra- 

 liamson, who appears in the picture. He 

 is not taller than the wreath, as ap- 

 l)ear8 in the picture, because he is stand- 

 ing on a box. The wreath was- made to 

 combine the colors of the Italian flag, 

 green, white and red, which were the 

 colors of the ribbon with which the two 

 flags were tied at the top and also the 

 color of the ribbons crossing the center, 

 the square object at the intersection of 

 the ribbons being a picture of Garibaldi, 

 which does not show in the illustration. 

 For green along the outside of the wreath 

 Mr. Abrahamson used peony foliage; for 

 the white, which occupied the center of 

 the wreath, he used sweet peas, and for 

 the red circle at the inside of the wreath 

 he used red peonies. 



