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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 





Jolt 8, 190d. 



kets, a straight wall of ferns, a cluster 

 of festoons, a sunburst of color or a 

 wild corner, a corner of palms or a soft 

 fabric drapery as a background for a 

 single stately vase, a hedge of American 

 Beauties; a group of graduated sizes in 

 palms, on one side reaching to ^he ceil- 

 ing and on the opposite side a low group 

 with festoons connecting; a gateway, an 



of the combinations with roses suggested 

 above, are excellent. For a rarer com- 

 bination, Easter lilies or candidums with 

 a valley shower have been used stun- 

 ningly for a church wedding. Daisies 

 make a beautiful informal arm bunch, 

 with a shower of the same. This is the 

 only easy Avay to carry a mum bunch. 

 This latter style of arm bouquets can 



Show Pelargonium Galatea. 



arch, a screen of daisies or mums, a 

 large decorated mirror. 



If the room is low, stretch out high 

 festoons to distant points; or, if it is 

 barny and vacant, group palms in deep 

 arches. If the church is chanceled, 

 penetrate to the altar with the decora- 

 tive lines and venture to the distant 

 points on the chancel rail. 



The Bride's Bouquet. 



For different wedding ceremonies and 

 conditions, adopt the kind of bride's 

 bouquet which common sense seems to 

 dictate. For an elaborate church or 

 fashionable home wedding have a shower 

 bouquet elaborate enough to grace the 

 gowns and surroundings, but vary the 

 style of shower. It may be of streamers 

 of green or all ribbon, or the two com- 

 bined; the shower may be of all ferns 

 or ferns and flowers mixed. It may be 

 without a top, or a wrist shower, a 

 prayer-book shower, a fan shower, or a 

 butterfly shower. 



Different flowers require different 

 treatment even for a shower. 'Long 

 sprays of swainsona, tied together so as 

 to fall outward from the stems, make a 

 beautiful natural shower, as would long 

 spirffas, white rambler roses or bridal 

 wreath. 



There are endless combinations to be 

 made with roses for the shower. Most 

 commonly seen are valley, violets, peas, 

 daisies, swainsonas and freesias. Other 

 combinations, for a daintier bouquet, are 

 violets and valley, violets and peas, val- 

 ley and orchids, violets and orchids, val- 

 ley and gardenias, valley and Bride 

 gladioli, daisies and peas. 



The Arm Shower. 



Then there is the arm shower, which is 

 a loose bunch of long-stemmed flowers 

 with a shower extending from the elbow 

 to the wrist. Koses with valley, or any 



be used with or without ribbon, scarf or 

 sash. 



Still another style of bride's bouquet 

 is the arm garland, or chain of roses 

 hanging over the arm and down against 

 the skirt. No tie is needed for this. A 

 few butterfly bows can be added. This 

 is an especially good style for an out- 

 door wedding. 



Let One Style Suggest Another. 



In all of the different fields of design, 

 one thing suggests another. While mak- 

 ing a centerpiece of Von Sion daffodils, 

 it occurs to you that a piece of a num- 

 ber of kinds of the interesting narcissus 



family would make a charming variety, 

 grading from a clear white into the 

 creams, thence to the canary tints and 

 finally to the deep orange, using their 

 own foliage only. This color blend is 

 at its best in daylight only. Then there 

 are the broken and imperfect specimens. 

 Open them out flat and lay them just 

 under the edge of the lace centerpiece, 

 80 that the edge of the petals forms a 

 frill around the outline of the lace piece. 

 Or if there are rose petals of one va- 

 riety, scatter them in some pretty design 

 on the table about the centerpiece. 



It is just so in every department of 

 this branch of design. One style of 

 mantel decoration will evolve from an- 

 other ; one mode of tying a funeral spray 

 will make you think of something else. 

 The first few original styles practically 

 win the battle, for the more you orig- 

 inate, the wider becomes your capacity 

 in this direction — not by trying to be 

 novel, but by studying form and color 

 and trying to classify and arrange their 

 modifications until the immensity of the 

 subject appalls you. Welcome changes, 

 for which you have not tried, break in 

 upon your imagination. It is ever true, 

 ' ' To them that have, shall be given, ' ' 

 and the abundance of the giving depends 

 upon the amount of interest displayed in 

 the feast of color and form which is 

 spread continually before our eyes. 



Gertrude Blair. 



SHOW PELARGONIUMS. 



De«erve Greater Popularity. 



While leas popular in America than the 

 zonal pelargoniums, owing to our hot 

 summers, there would seem to be no good 

 reason why more of the show and decora- 

 tive section could not be grown and dis- 

 posed of by commercial growers, pro- 

 vided good varieties are secured. A well 

 grown batch of Lady Washington gera- 

 niums, to use a familiar title which has 

 been given them here, at once elicits 

 paeans of praise from all who see them, 

 and an expression often heard is, "Why 

 cannot I grow these in my house?" 



In Europe they are everybody's plant, 

 being grown in immense numbers for 

 market, and there are few of even the 

 humblest cottagers who do not carry at 



Show Pelargonium Mme.gThibaut. 



