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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



23 



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Moderate Priced Qiristmas Plant Arran£ementi. 



settias, Christmas cherries, tulips, hya- 

 cinths, primulas, cyclamens, and ferns 

 of various kinds and planting them in 

 these different receptacles. These novel- 

 ties can be made up to sell anywhere 

 from 50 cents to $5 or more, depending 

 largely on the price of the receptacle 

 and the tone of the store that is making 

 the sale; a fashionable store in a, big city 

 cannot sell 50-cent articles at holiday 

 time, rents and the cost of delivery neces- 

 sitating sales that give greater profit. 



The illustration on this page gives an 

 idea of the variety of receptacles and 

 planting used in a Chicago store last 

 Christmas. 



The forehanded florist keeps an eye 

 out for pleasing novelties and buys them 

 a few at a time as he finds them, but 

 any who have neglected to prepare them- 

 selves for Christmas can stock up by 

 wire. One of the developments of the 

 supply business of recent years has been 

 the sale of what the supply people call 

 assortments, by which they mean that if 

 tlie buyer gives an idea of what he wants, 

 'iicntioning either price, size or style as 

 ^'<11 as purpose of the article, the sup- 

 I'y man will pick out and ship a selec- 

 ''(•n, one or two pieces of each style. So 

 ^•'11 do the supply people know the tastes 

 '■■'d needs of the various communities 

 '-^iit these assortments seldom fail to 

 h ve complete satisfaction and many 

 ■■res in small towns buy all their sup- 

 1' y stock in that way. 



Oakland, Cal.— Christian Eosenquist, 

 norist and gardener, has been com- 

 'ted to the Stockton Asylum. 



I^OUTH Attleboro, Mass.— Edward A. 



futney has been appointed superin- 



'"lent of the South Attleboro cemetery, 



succeed Prank E. Shaw, who resigned. 



CHRISTMAS GREENS. 



Necessity for Preparedneis. 



A feature of the Christmas trade is 

 the green business. It has grown till it 

 takes up a great deal of time and we 

 must either make up these wreaths and 

 garlands ourselves or buy them. Some 

 can be bought to advantage, while others 

 are difficult to get in the right quality. 

 Having these wreaths and wreathing in 

 sufficient quantity, ready in advance of 

 the demand, and kept so that they will 

 be in good order for Christmas eve, will 

 require no little thought and manage- 

 ment. If you make up your own greens 

 you cannot put it off till the last day, 

 when everybody is on the jump with 

 other work, but must make them up 

 several days before sale. 



Cite of Holly. 



Holly is, perhaps, our most important 

 article in this line. It should never be 

 exposed to severe weather. The cases 

 should be stored in a cool shed. A dry 

 heat will shrivel it up. A cool, rather 

 moist cellar would be the ideal place. 

 Use the short stuff for making wreaths 

 and the good branches and sprays for 

 selling as 50 cents' worth, or a dollar's 

 worth, or two dollars' worth, for there is 

 a great demand for nice stock that way. 



If you do not have this cool cellar for 

 storing the loose branches, and more par- 

 ticularly the wreaths when they are made 

 up, perhaps a week ahead of time, they 

 keep well beneath a bench in a cool green- 

 house, laying coarse paper on the ground, 

 to keep the wreaths clean, and news- 

 paper over them, to keep the light away. 

 Do not put down more than two layers 

 of the wreaths, or the weight will flatten 

 out the lower ones. Some make these 



holly wreaths with ground pine on one 

 side and holly on the other. And some 

 work in the so-called red berries to help 

 out when the holly is shy of its own ber- 

 ries. Get your local wire worker to sup- 

 ply you with the wire frames for the 

 wreaths; he will supply them as cheap 

 and neater than you can make them. 



Laurel Wreathing. 



The so-called mountain laurel, Kalmia 

 latifolia, is by all odds the nicest ma- 

 terial for wreathing. It is a prottv 

 green, clean, dbes not drop and has not 

 the cheap look of the ground pine 

 wreathing. Use it in all decorations 

 where you can. It is perhaps double the 

 cost of the ground pine wreathing, but 

 It looks It and is worth it. Here is an 

 article, though, that you can buy by the 

 yard, made up, rather cheaper than you 



^^l\. ^^l}^^ ^P^^y^ ^^^ ™al^e it up your- 

 self. The best trade may call for some 

 laurel wreathing "extra heavy," and 

 this we have to make up for the occa- 

 sion. 



This beautful shrub adorns the bleak 

 and snowy slopes of our Allegheny moun- 

 A^^.^I"^ ""^ amount of frost hurts it. 

 A doldframe, with the light excluded, is 

 a good place for it, but don't make too 

 great a thickness of it, for it flattens out 

 and then is anything but ornamental. 

 Ihat IS the only trouble with the wreath- 

 ing you buy; it needs to be ruffled up 

 and shaken out. 



Bjuquet Green. 



The old ground pine, which has sev- 

 eral aliases, will come next in import- 

 ance. We all know that it is a carpet 

 to some parts of our northern states and 

 IS as hardy as an icicle, but it browns 

 up quickly when used in a warm room 

 Even while in crates, unpacked, some 



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