Skptkmber 24, 1914. 



The Florists' Review 



17 



Table Decoration by the Iowa Seed Co., Winning First Prize at the Iowa State Fair. 



inixed to make the eflfort to grow it and 

 nijiny houses in Europe that had a ready 

 iiiiirket in our great country will find 

 tliat they are not needed so badly. 



There is not much chance that 

 Holland will be entangled in the war 

 •111(1 we have the benefit that the bulbs 

 ;ii(' offered to us this year from Holland 

 jioople at low prices, as their customers 

 '11 Kurope are not able to take them this 

 year. The only thing in bulbous plants 

 that will be really high in price this 

 M'ason will be lily of the valley. But 

 wliiit bridegroom will try to save on the 

 l'ii<lal bouquet when the bride wants lily 

 "t the valley? But for other occasions 

 "Wwr pretty flowers can lie substituted 

 tor lily of "the valley, so if the demand 

 IS not too large the price may bo kept 

 ;ii .) reasonable level. 



Alert Minds Will Win. 



Ilie interruption of our supplies from 

 liiiopo will force us to train our minds 

 '" Itring new things to the attention of 

 ''ic public. There are many who have 

 'citile minds, but who most likely have 

 ]■"'*'» too comfortable, and their ability 

 '".V dormant. And right here I can say 

 I'l't of my success in working up busi- 

 '""•-^ in my line has been possible be- 

 ' iii'^e of the dormant minds of others. 



I here are many plants that are easy " 

 '" «row and which are pretty for dec- 

 '"•ifive purposes, but which "have not 

 '"'■» appreciated sufficiently by florists. 

 "'" that account, or on account of their 

 " "iple beauty, these jilants were not 

 """•'■Pd to the public. .\ refined public 

 '^"idd not fail to appreciate thom. These 

 I ''iits now will take the jdace of the 

 ' ' I'orted stock, which is sold at a higli 

 || "ft but which does not give any better 

 " ife than the home-grown stock. 



Flowers Bright and Gay. 



'"!■ (latrons who use plants and 

 ^ ^^Ts to beautify the home will not 

 \ ' '■: doing this because the times arc 

 - lessing. Just because of that the 

 , ' >' of the house will want to make her 

 ""^ pretty, so that when lier husband 



conies home after a hard day of business 

 he will find his home unchanged and 

 cheerful. Some of our patrons may buy 

 cheaper plants, but plants they will 

 have. It is up to the florists to give 

 them something good at sf.x low cost if 

 possible, and it must be a pretty poor 

 man who cannot meet conditions with 

 the right spirit and try to overcome 

 difficulties with a cheerful mirtd- So, 

 on the whole, if we do not get com- 

 plicated with any of the warring coun- 

 tries, America will prosper as it has 

 prospered before, and it will prove to us 

 what we knew right along, that this 

 rich country, where prosperity is throb- 

 bing in the very air, where energy and 

 ambition are to be found everywhere, 

 can be the whole world to itself. 



Max Schling. 



admired and merited the blue ribbon it 

 received as the best of the latter class. 



HATS IN TABLE DECORATION. 



It was a New York retailer who, as 

 related in The Eeview. conceived the 

 idea of using ladies' Florentine straw 

 hats as the basis for steamer baskets, 

 but it remained for a western florist to 

 adopt a similar idea for a table decora- 

 tion. At the Iowa state fair, reported 

 in last week's Eeview, the entry of 

 the Iowa Seed Co., of Des Moines, in 

 the luncheon table decoration class was 

 of this character. The centerpiece con- 

 sisted of a lady's Panama hat, of large 

 size, lined with blue messaline and 

 trimmed ready-to-we«r with pink and 

 blue chiffon. Inside the crown of the 

 hat were arranged Cecile Brunner roses, 

 lilies of the valley and maidenhair fern. 

 The individual favors were small Pana- 

 ma hats trimme<l to match the center- 

 piece. The place cards were small paste- 

 board hats, hand-painted to match the 

 favors and centerpiece. The completed 

 decoration, shown in the accompanying 

 illustration, was novel in design and, 

 as it was worked out, particularly effec- 

 tive in its execution. Of the dinner 

 and luncheon table decorations shown 

 at the fair, this was one of the most 



BUSINESS EMBABBASSMENTS. 



New York, N. Y.— Theodore E, Hahn, 

 of 2074 Broadway, has filed a petition 

 in bankruptcy, with liabilities of $2,466. 

 and assets of $664, consisting of furni- 

 ture and fixtures to the value of $600 

 and aQCounts amounting to $64. 



Alvln, Tex.— Judge A. R. Hamblen, of 

 the Eleventh District court, has ap- 

 pointed T. C. Ford master in chancery 

 of the Alvin .Japanese Nursery Co., 

 which, as reported fully in last week's 

 Review, recently made application for 

 the appointment of a receiver. 



A PRAYER FOR PEACE. 



At the sumnier meeting of the Na- 

 tional Association of Gardeners, held in 

 Boston, August 19, 1914, a committee, 

 consisting of \V. N. Craig, Duncan Fin- 

 layson and M. C. Ebel, was appointed 

 to draft resolutions conveying the sym- 

 pathies of the members of the organiza- 

 tion to the Eurojiean horticulturists on 

 the terrible calamity which has befallen 

 tbem. The committee reports its resolu- 

 tion as follows: 



WlHM-cas, Our fcUowiiuMi «iiKiiKetl In the pur- 

 suit of liDrticulture in its various phases in th«' 

 Kuropcaii countries ur<> now wurrounded b.v the 

 horrors of a terrible war, inun.v of wliom may b«' 

 suffering from Horrowing !iiij?ulgh for loss of kin 

 on the hattlpflelds. 



Be It Kosolved, tliat tlie liicmliers of tlN- Na 

 tioual Asgoclatlou of Cardent-rs convey to their 

 lirother horticulturists in Knrope aflllctort by the 

 war, their heartfelt sympathies on the catastrophe 

 which has so suddenly overtaken them; and that 

 our prayer he tliat the .VlmiKhty Ood in His 

 Inllnite wisdmn will Kuide the InstiKators of 

 the nppalliUK eoufll<t now raging to n wpeedv 

 termination of It, and to everln.sting i)eace 



Be It Fnrther Resolved, that Copies of these 

 resolutions he forwarded to the various national 

 liortiouitural bodies in the several countries now 

 at war, and spread on tlie records of the N. A. O 



Fairfield, la.— E. H. Montgomery re 

 ports business about as usual. As "cool- 

 er weather has come, he expects trade 

 to increase shortly. The building of ad 

 ditional houses has been postponed to 

 next vear. 



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