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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Mat 21, 1908. 



uprights, should be made a little heavier 

 than the top. By using a darker flower 

 on the uprights than above on the 

 arch, you can also produce the desired 

 effect. In case you do not make the 

 gates solid, then a nice spray of green 

 in each gate will add to the appearance. 



The t^rp. 



While the harp is"^ a pretty design 

 when nicely made, it has many special 

 features to look to. On a large harp I 



DECORATED WAGONS. 



The accompanying iUkstrations show 

 two of the vehicles of AW. Dudley & 

 Son, Parkersburg, W. Va^ decorated for 

 the large trades display which took place 

 May 15. This was made the special 

 feature of the United Commercial Trav- 

 elers' Convention from four states and 

 the District of Columbia. Dudley & Son 

 were awarded first prize out of seventy- 

 five firms who entered and were repre- 



Flower Bed on a 'Wagon for an Industrial Parade. 



would suggest that you run a few flow- 

 ers up among the strings to take off the 

 bareness. First place a few lilies or 

 open roses at. the lower corner of the 

 piece and then insert some loose flowers 

 between the larger ones. Some florists 

 have the strings bronzed by the wire 

 man, but in my opinion they should be 

 covered with chenille to match. There 

 should not be too many strings and some 

 people give a different and, I think, 

 wrong meaning to the piece by showing 

 some of the strings to be broken. 



With the lyre it is about the same as 

 with the harp. The strings should be 

 nicely covered with chenille. Some flow- 

 ers arranged in the lower part of the 

 lyre proper, to take away the bareness, 

 will add much to the effect. 



The Heart. 



You may not be called upon to make 

 a heart as often as some other design, 

 but a small heart is a pretty piece for a 

 child's funeral. In making up a heart 

 be careful at the top, where the flowers 

 meet, that you do not crowd them; oth- 

 erwise your design will not have a good 

 shape. Also see that you run to a nice 

 point at the lower end. 



Maltese G-oss. 



In making up a maltese cross the wire 

 man should not make the arms too wide 

 in the center or the piece will look 

 crowded when finished. You must also 

 be careful to kee^Ktne flowers well in at 

 this point. See to it that the corners of 

 each arm are as sharp as it is possible 

 to make them. Hugo Schroetee. 



AuBUEN, Ind. — C. M. Ten Eyck says 

 trade has been good and he expects to 

 4o some building this season. ^ 



sented by floats. The small wagon used 

 3,000 roses and carnations. The larger 

 wagon represented a landscape effect, 

 with a carpet bed with lettering " U. T. 

 C, " the two wagons making a very cred- 

 itable display. 



When asked if the effort paid in a 

 business way, C. P. Dudley said: "Yes, 

 it did. At the end of the parade we 

 invited everyone to help themselves to 

 the flowers. This was promptly accepted 

 and in less than three minutes each 

 float was stripped of every flower and 

 plant. We found this only to be an 

 appetizer, like a newsboy "we have in 

 mind, who went through his train and 



dropped a couple of peanuts in each seat, 

 later passing through the car calling 

 out, 'Hot roasted peanuts, 5 cents a 

 bag,' and doing a big business. Those 

 who were not lucky in the grab of course 

 had to purchase." 



AZALEAS AT GHENT. 



At the recent centenary exhibition at 

 Ghent, Indian azaleas were ' shown as 

 they can be shown nowhere else in the 

 world. There were many hundreds of 

 plants, some of great size, all arranged 

 most attractively — not a pot showed. One 

 important class was to illustrate the sev- 

 eral styles of training, and one of the 

 most noteworthy classes was that for 

 a collection of fifty plants cultivated as 

 espaliers (fan-shaped), and the premier 

 award, consisting of a gold medal, was 

 made, with the felicitations of the jury, 

 to A. Haerens, Somergem, who had 

 finer examples of this style of training 

 than those included in his group arranged 

 for effect. The plants ranged from two 

 to three feet across, and were finely 

 flowered on both sides. These examples, 

 by reason of their novelty, attracted 

 much attention from those of the English 

 visitors who are interested in greenhouse 

 plants. The varieties were much the 

 same as those represented in the round- 

 headed plants of the usual type, and 

 it would therefore appear that all the 

 finest varieties are suitable for this style 

 of training. L. Van Houtte Fere, Ghent, 

 was a good ^cond with well developed 

 pl§.nts, but with flowers on one side 

 only. 



Pyramidal trained plants were of great 

 excellence, and the class for twenty- 

 five specimens was a remarkably strong 

 one. Sander & Sons won the work of 

 art offered as the premier award. The 

 plants were about three, feet high, finely 

 proportioned, and superbly flowered. In 

 the class for 100 pyramids, Victor van 

 de Weghe, Loochristy, was successful in 

 obtaining premier honors, and the award 

 of a gold medal was well merited. Of 

 considerable excellence also were the fif- 

 ty pyramids for which J. De Puysselyre 

 was awarded a gold medal. The number 

 of plants called for in these classes will 

 give an idea of the 'extent of the dis- 

 play of the commoner round-headed 

 plants. • „ 



J. W. Dudley & Son's Wagon in an Industrial Parade. 



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