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AuoDST 13, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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THE RETAIL 



FLORIST... 



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SPRAY OF ORCHIDS. 



The spray of orchids and cycas leaves 

 is one of the series of funeral designs by 

 0. H. Fox, Columbia avenue and Twenty- 

 first street, Philadelphia, and the illus- 

 tration displays a form of one of Mr, 

 Fox's favorite ideas for funeral work, a 

 spray composed chiefly of one variety of 

 flowers. The leaves of Cycas revoluta 

 have been used for a background, on 

 which have been fastened blooms of the 

 purple and white Cattleya labiata, giving 

 a rich, harmonious color effect. A clus- 

 ter of gardenias divided from the orchids 

 by a bow of white ribbon flnished off 

 the bunch. Phil. 



THE MASONIC DESIGN; 



W. Xi. Leeka, at Fairmount, 111., ac- 

 knowledges to being particular on one 

 point, and as to that he thinks the mem- 

 bers of practically every society observe 

 the same thing if it is lacking in a 

 funeral design. Mr. Leeka 's hobby is 

 the proportions of the masonic square 

 and compass, which constitute a design 

 almost always seen at the funeral of a 

 member of the .Masonic order. Mr. 

 Leeka says the square should be of the 

 proportions of the familiar article of 

 steel used in the building trades and the 

 compass should appear to lie on and 

 above the square. He avers that in his 

 opinion the members of any order hold 

 in esteem the florist who can execute the 

 lodge emblems in flowers without doing 

 violence to them, and that the reverse is 

 true of the florist who has no eye to the 

 eternal fitness of things. 



SOME WINDOWS. 



Good Taste in Decorating Them. 



Having discussed at length the well 

 equipped window, it is next in order to 

 consider the display itself. When we 

 enter this subject, a wide field with many 

 paths at once opens up to us. At first 

 a rough classification of different kinds 

 of window displays will aid us, and 

 then a few remarks applicable to all 

 kinds will preface the description of the 

 different classes. One attractive kind of 

 window display is the landscape, another 

 is the water window, and a third is the 

 special design showing. Each division, 

 with examples, will be considered later. 



An Overcrowded Window. 



Even a casual thought upon the above 

 classification will show that it gives no 

 place at all for the windows frequently 

 seen, which might be described as the 

 "set in" or box display, usurping the 

 function of the back ice-box, without 

 even the care and thought given to the 

 front ice-box. It is an attempt to fill 

 in every inch of space. A sample lot of 

 every kind of flower in the house is 

 packed in a jardiniere or vase, along 

 with other well filled vases of every 

 style on the premises, all set in as 



closely as possible to their neighbors, 

 till the window space is suffocatingly 

 full. This is repeated mechanically 365 

 days in the year. If packed windows 

 like these are to become the rule, then 

 we would better estimate decorations 

 by the cubic foot, and brides ' bouquets 



by the amount of excavations they would 

 displace. 



Other Defective DispUys^^ 

 Another excuse for a winaow decora- 

 tion is the foregoing thinned out. An- 

 other is of two or three vases or groups 

 of totally different flowers, with no visi- 

 ble reason for their being displayed to- 

 gether, some colors, positively fighting. 

 Others have indiffefent coloring, neither 

 bad nor particularly good, merely acci- 

 dental combinations. Others are put to- 

 gether in much the same manner, with 

 a due respect for color, but none for 

 pure design. One has plenty of space, 

 or too much vacancy, but to no purpose. 

 A fairly good center group leaves both 

 corners of the window bare. 



Not infrequently there may be seen 

 a window display smacking of the first 



Spray of Ordiids. 



