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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



of crimson and crimson purple and their 

 pinks, another of the blotched buff and 

 crimson so often seen, and another of 

 the crimson pink alone. Keep the scar- 

 lets and their pinks out for another 

 day. 



G>reopsi8 and Goldenrod. 



Cat-tails and goldenrod or coreopsis 

 or Golden Glow make a charming com- 

 bination. Coreopsis makes rich masses 

 against a brown background of old pine 

 needles or oak leaves. Make a big rush 

 or rice-straw basket of coreopsis or 

 Golden Glow and run a group of cat- 

 tails, with the foliage, up one side of 

 the handle, but do not attempt to train 

 to the shape of the handle. To keep them 

 in this position, tie with a bow of their 

 own foliage. 



To use cat-tails with goldenrod, make 

 a round sheaf of the latter, bind in with 

 cat-tail leaves and catch a few in the 

 sheaf. Stand the sheaf in a prominent 

 place. Close by make another of the 

 same, more loosely arranged and thrown 

 <iown on one side. This also would like 

 a brown setting. 



Wheat Sheaves and Gladioli. 



Here is another plan for a gladiolus or 

 phlox display. Cut up several sheaves 

 of wheat and scatter loosely with some 

 coarse fern leaves, closely enough to 

 cover the floor. Shopworn or broken 

 sheaves will serve this purpose well 

 enough. Fill several tall vases with 

 water and set at wide intervals about 

 the window. Fill the vases with a few 

 fine stalks of gladioli or phlox. Around 

 each vase build a shock of large wheat 

 sheaves. Plenty of open space should 

 be allowed between the shocks. Only 

 a very large window will accommodate 

 more than two or three shocks. This 

 will prove to be a seasonable display 

 scheme, and the wheat is a fine setting 

 for the brilliant colors of either gladioli 

 or phlox. Some patience will be re- 

 quired to construct a good shock with 

 the stiff sheaves, but the results will 

 justify the effort. 



Asters and Mums. 



In the way of special design windows 

 for an aster or chrysanthemum show, try 

 this: Make a soft, thick background 

 of several layers of white cheesecloth 

 laid in waves. Over this lay another cov- 

 ering of wide Nile green chiffon or veil- 

 ing. Here and there under the chiffon 

 lay an aster or mum of the prevailing 

 color, and as a centerpiece set in a large 

 vase or basket of asters with a smart 

 bow of the green. 



Here is another mum window: Get a 

 few cornstalks from which the ears have 

 been removed and the husks left. Where 

 the ear was, place a big mum and re- 

 adjust the husks like a ruching around 

 the flower, up close under the head. Put 

 in tall vases sparsely and display with a 

 tapestry across the back of the window. 

 Make the tapestry of strings of grains 

 of red and yellow corn. This setting is 

 fine for red, yellow or white mums, but 

 not for the heliotrope pinks. 



Alluring Features. . 



Having a casual observer stop and look 

 for a moment at the window is hardly 

 onough to bring him in. Have some 

 little, attractive feature which shall in- 

 terest him enough to induce him to fol- 

 low it to its source. This feature, what- 

 ever it is, must not only be a leader to 

 draw the eye on, but must be one of 

 those happr expedients, neither dispen- 





Scroll and Ribbon. 



sable nor essential to the design, but 

 still a link in the chain of temptation. 

 Let it be something curious, something 

 quaint, like a bit of ribbon or an odd 

 piece of pottery, a streak of unusual foli- 

 ^S^j & garland of flowers, or some co- 

 quettish touch or suggestion of life. 



For example, suppose you are display- 

 ing a field of phlox after the manner of 

 the daisy field just described. You want 

 some little feature added. A hatful of 

 phlox would not be at all taking, like 

 the daisy hat, so you cut a number of 

 quarter-yard lengths of chiffon, some 

 plain, some embroidered, all in colors 

 which harmonize with the color of the 

 phlox. Of each of these make a little 

 butterfly bow, either with wings up as 

 when the butterfly alights, or with wings 

 extended as in- flight. On one side of 

 the window make a line of them hover- 

 ing over and alighting on the flowers. 

 Group quite a cluster of them together, 

 and then gradually thin the line and 

 scatter the butterflies till they disappear 

 in the roar. Those supposed to be fly- 

 ing can be suspended with No. 'My wiio. 



which is practically invisible except in 

 strong sunlight. They will Atop and 

 study your window. Then the battle is 

 half won. Gertrude Blair. 



THE READERS' CORNER. 



A Question of Priority. 



In an article which appeared on page 

 13 of the Review of August 27, Peter 

 Crowe states that he believes himself to 

 be the oldest rose grower in the United 

 States, with perhaps one exception, John 

 N. May. Mr. Crowe has been forty-two 

 years in the rose business, he says. I 

 think I can beat him a little. I went 

 into business in this town — Atchison, 

 V an. — in March, 1865, so I will be forty- 

 four years in the business next March. 1 

 am not a large grower, but I have grown 

 more or less roses every year since then. 



is. J. Groves. 



Calais, Me. — T. R. Sedorquest. under- 

 taker, has gone into the retail florists' 

 business. 



