OCTOBKR 29, 1908. 



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An Exhibition Table and Mantel Decoration That Made Business for the Florist. 



A Rustic Bridge. 



Another: Make a broad bed for a 

 creek, over which a rustic bridge passes. 

 Let the road leading to the bridge be 

 graveled and planted along each side 

 with low growing plants, according to 

 fancy. At the other end of the bridge, 

 where the road is supposed to lead away, 

 let it disappear as if turning. Bank up 

 with tall palms or blooming plants and 

 ferns. Under the bridge float water 

 lilies. If you wish to display them for 

 sale, make the bridge of new pots. For 

 a wild scene use a single log, supposed 

 to have fallen, for a bridge. Coreopsis, 

 gaillardias and autumn leaves would 

 finish the scene appropriately. 



A Canoe With a Cargo of Flowers. 



Still another: Have at the end of the 

 window a group or sort of thicket, if 

 you please, of overhanging foliage, 

 among which are hidden hanging vases 

 having the appearance of growing up 

 among the branches. On the opposite 

 bank lay out a beach and on it set a 

 canoo loaded with flowers, as though 

 just pulled out of the water to discharge 

 its cargo. 



A Lighthouse. 



A lighthouse: Build a tower, the size 

 of which is to be determined by the size 

 of the window, of birch, other bark, or 

 shingles. Have a series of windows 

 around the top and place an electric 

 light within. Set on a beach with no 

 obstruction in front, but with a mass 

 of foliage, blooming plants or cut 

 flowers behind it. Keep the beach clear 

 all around the water line, which might 



be shaped like a harbor, with the light- 

 house on a point. Moor a tiny sailboat 

 out from the shore, with a cargo of 

 flowers. Display stock all around from 

 the rear of the window. 



A fountain is a more common form 

 of water window. This is usually banked 

 around with ferns and flowers, and 

 planted in the water will be found water 

 plants and water lilies. Fish, frogs and 

 turtles make it their home. Such win- 

 dows are common enough to need no 

 detailed description. Gertrude Blair. 



BERRY GLOBES. 



For the retail florist, the partridge 

 berry globe is one of the best selling 

 novelties for Christmas that has been 

 introduced in years. The idea originat- 

 ed in the New England states, where the 

 berries appear to be most plentiful, and 

 where it has met with an increasing de- 

 mand each season, until last year, when 

 about twice as many wore sold as pre- 

 viously. The market widened until or- 

 ders came from cities in the west and 

 south for more than could be filled. 

 Several firms made a business of supply- 

 ing these globes to the trade, and made 

 them by the thousand. 



Ordinary fish globes, in sizes from 

 four to eight inches in diameter, were 

 used, covered with a piece of glass cut 

 to fit the top of the globe. This was 

 afterward improved upon by having a 

 lid or cover of pressed glass made for 

 the Purpose. A red cord with tassels 

 tied in a bow around the neck of the 

 globe gives a finish and makes it a most 

 complete and acceptable Christmas gift. 



These globes retail at a good profit, the 

 selling price ranging from $1.50 to $3.50 

 each, or as high as $5, according to size 

 and the trade of the stores handling 

 them. 



The partridge berry, as it is generally 

 called, although it is also known locally 

 in different places as squaw berry, two- 

 eyed berry, rabbit berry, turkey berry, 

 etc., is botanically named Mitchella 

 repens. It grows all over the United 

 States east of the Mississippi, particular- 

 ly in the pine woods, from Canada to 

 Mexico, being most plentiful in the New 

 England states. It is a low-growing 

 vine, with glossy green leaves, Ijearing 

 berries about the size of peas, of a 

 bright holly red color. These can be 

 gathered from October 1 on, packed in 

 damp moss, and stored in cool cellars or 

 in storage, where they will keep per- 

 fectly until wanted. The vines are 

 picked with stems about four to six 

 inches long, each with a berry, and tied 

 in bunches of fifty sprays. 



The trade price for these is from $2.50 

 to $3 per thousand sprays. In filling the 

 globes a ball of sphagnum, covered with 

 green sheet moss, is bound together with 

 thread (silkalene or other green thread 

 is best), then moistened well and filled 

 with the berry sprays. Three of these 

 about two to three inches long are 

 stemmed together with hair-wire, and 

 made as pointed at the stem end as pos- 

 sible. Some workers place the sprays 

 separately in the moss, using a pair 

 of tweezers to handle them. Care should 

 be taken not to make the ball of moss 

 too large, as it cannot be placed readily 

 in the globe when finished, and also 



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