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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



DECBMBEn 12, 1907. 



Hamper of Begonia Gloire de Lorraine. 



will leave no noticeable mark when re- 

 moved, as paper, paint or tapestry usu- 

 ally meets in the corners. Sometimes I 

 have found it necessary to draw a strong 

 wire from the fixture in the center of a 

 room to the side, or rather to the meet- 

 ing place of the wall and ceiling. From 

 this wire you can suspend green, doves, 

 bells, a canopy, etc. 



A picture molding in a room also af- 

 fords a good place to fasten green. 

 Some time ago I had occasion to de:'- 

 ora^e a ?ort of bay window with south- 

 ern smilax. The window was off a large 

 reception hall and the ceiling of the win- 

 dow was somewhat lower than that of 

 the room proper. As the finest of tapes- 

 try was used on the wall and the lady of 

 the house was standing close by, I had 

 to be exceedingly careful. To begin 

 with. I stretched some strong silkaline 

 •from the curtain ])oles in the window 

 to the jiicture molding running around 

 the room. This gave me something on 

 which to fasten the smilax to form a 

 sort of canopy at the top of the window. 

 Then it was an easy matter to hang the 

 green from the curtain rods down to 

 the floor, forming a background. To 

 fasten some smilax at the aide of the- 

 room just at the entrance to the window 

 and over the entrance, I drove a few 

 small tacks into the top of the molding 

 and tied the stems of "the southern smilax 

 to them; it, being stiff, held itself in 

 ])Iace. 



Very often one has to go far out of 

 his way to find a place to fasten a thin 

 wire or strong string from which to hang 

 garlands or ribbon. 



Push pins with the glass handle are 

 very handy to use in decorating. The 

 hole til at rhey leave when removed is so 

 small as to be almost invisible. You 

 will liave to resort to fome such scheme 

 if you desire to fasten a few flowers or 

 a bow to the side of a w.-ill. unless you 

 suspend those from the ceiling. 



AVhere a room rounds off instead of 



coming to a sharp corner where the ceil- 

 ing and wall meet, it is often a hard 



matter to find a hold. TIaually this curve 

 in the ceiling or wall is set off with a 

 molding and this latter attords a place 

 to fasten something. In a case of this 

 kind, if you want to decorate the ceil- 

 ing, unless you can drive a tack in each 

 corner and form a sort of network of 

 thin wire, you will have to extend some 

 stiff wire from the chandelier and sus- 

 pend your decorations from this. 



H. S. . 



ARTISTIC ARRANGEMENTS. 



The Sons; of the Violet. 



This arrangement was one of the 

 bright ideas of Charles Henry Fox, 

 Philadelphia, whose work at the Sign of 

 the Rose has been appearing in half- 

 tone reproduction in the Rkview for 

 some weeks. The arrangement was to 

 cover a baby grand piano, and was pho- 

 tographed as designed by Mr. Fox for a 

 musicale at a fashionable home where 

 Mme. Nordica sang ' ' The Song of the 

 Violet. ' ' The space occupied was six 

 feet long by four feet wide. The ham- 

 per in. the background was filled solidly 

 with violets. The violin and manuscript 

 of music rested against the hamper, 

 the six favors being large clusters of 

 violets and orchids. 



ENGLISH IVY. 



English ivy is not perfectly hardy in 

 all sections of this dbuntry. This is 

 proved by the fact that during several 

 successive winters many thousands have 



One of the Ways Lorraine was Sent Out Last Chrisfmas. 



