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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



4vhr 6, 1911. 



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THE RETAIL 



FLORIST.. . 



NASTURTIUM NOTIONS. 



Fine for Mantels and Windows. 



Nasturtiums arranged in a bark or 

 moss-covered pan, fitted to the shelf, 

 make a good decoration for some of 

 the rough eto^e mantels often seen in 

 bungalows and country homes. Here, 

 as in the panels, long branches may 

 trail downward and a few may be 

 caught and fastened in an upright posi- 

 tion. Make one end of the pan a 

 heavy mass of the cut flowers and 

 scatter along .toward a lighter group, 

 with ferns, *t the other end. 



Bank a mantel of mission finish with 

 plants or long branches, as in the pre- 

 ceding design, and train them liburally 

 over the mirror frame and the edge 

 of the glass, not encroaching on the 

 center. Or, if a wide shelf is met 

 with overhead, fill a second pan with 

 heavy trailers or plants and let them 

 shower over the lower pan. The same 

 kind of a pan may be fastened over 

 the top of a window with fine effect. 



While almost any flower is happily 

 placed within the reflecting surface 

 of a mirror, it seems as though nastur- 

 tiums were made for mirrors. Even 

 in table decorations work in a mirror 

 in some way with them, if possible. 



While low bark and twig baskets are 

 good appearing receptacles for nastur- 

 tiums, they are not practical unless sup- 

 plied with pans. Gourds would be good 

 for cut nasturtiums, with rustic sur- 

 roundings. 



There are two main points in the use 

 of nasturtiums for decorative purposes 

 — first, to give them opportunities for 

 trailing or climbing, and second, the 

 massing of color, which should begin 

 with a heavy group of the deeper 

 colored flowers and should stretch away 

 to finer streaks and spots of color be- 

 fore it fades into the yellow green of 



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the foliage. In a decoration which 

 contains no other flower but nastur- 

 tiums, a few odd pieces of green, ivory 

 or dark brown crockery may be em- 

 ployed for the flowers, but only a few. 

 An outdoor- "daylight wedding decora- 

 tion done in nasturtiums would be a 

 delightful departure. "Use a rustic sum- 

 mer house for a canopy and cover the 

 roof, inside and outside, with nastur- 

 tiums and nasturtiums. No suggobtions 

 would be necessary for this. They 

 would arrange themselves in. a network 

 at the back and sides, and come 

 fairly tumbling down the poles that 

 support the roof. 



For Centerpieces. 



Table centerpieces of nasturtiums 

 are just as easily thought out. For a 

 dainty luncheon or dinner piece erect 

 a 12-inch gilded rod at each end of 

 the table. Stretch Between these rods, 

 at convenient distances apart, iNile 

 green or orange yellow ribbon of No. 3 

 to No. 5 width. If the table is long, a 

 third or perhaps a fourth rod will be 

 needed along toward the center. In a 

 plateau of moss in which the rods are 

 erected, sink a few low vases and fill 

 these with long-stemmed nasturtium 

 flowers and green, with some branches. 

 Catch up the ribbon here and there and 

 tie it with dainty bows, in the fashion 

 of vines to a trellis. Cover the vases 

 with moss and decorate the rods with 

 trailers. Scatter foliage and flowers 

 out sparingly from the center line and 

 ends. 



If the table is unusually wide, two 

 such slender lines of ribbon and rods 

 might be run its full length, with a 

 heavier massing of flowers between. Or, 

 for a large, square table, two cross lines 

 might be used. For a round table make 

 a square enclosure of the same style, 

 with rods at the comers, ribbon 



stretched between tbe corners and the 

 whole center filled with a growing bed 

 of nasturtium plants, with extra flow- 

 ers added. 



Screens and Backgrounds. 



Gilded wire netting might be used 

 in place of the ribbons for the table 

 decoration. A large panel of gilded 

 netting, with nasturtium decorations, 

 might also be used in other decorative 

 features, as a screen for musicians, a 

 background for a reception or wedding 

 party, a dining-room screen or a corner 

 or window decoration for a store. 



Nasturtium colors are good mixers 

 for themselves. There is a salmon pink 

 which jars slightly with the yellow and 

 orange in daylight, but one is safe with 

 most of the ordinary mixtures. How- 

 ever, there are delightfully fine lines of 

 color distinctions between the yellows 

 and creams. The oranges and creams, 

 the extremes of the colors, make the 

 softer harmonies, while the canary yel- 

 lows are a host of color effect all to 

 themselves. G. B. 



A GK>OD ROADS WINDOW. 



When the National Good Beads Asso- 

 ciation met in Birmingham, Ala., a few 

 weeks ago the Amzi Godden Seed Co., 

 which not only runs a seed store, but 

 also does a large retail cut flower busi- 

 ness, took advantage of the opportunity 

 for a timely window display, which was 

 photographed, and the photograph is re- 

 produced herewith. While some arau- 

 carias and a few other items of the 

 florists' stock were used in the window, 

 it was principally a display for the seed 

 and implement departments. The "good 

 roads" divided fields of three kin£ of 

 grass. The one in front is fancy red 

 top about one inch high, while the one 

 at the right is timothy not more than 

 one and a half inches high. Where the 

 figure of the negro with the cultivator 

 is shown was radish about two inches 

 high. The attention attracted amply re- 

 paid for the effort. 



Adrian, Mich. — ^It is reported that 

 Elmer D. Smith & Co. are erecting sev- 

 eral new Foley houses this suimmer. 



Alvin, Tex. — T. H. Stevens, formerly 

 of the firm of Stevens & Heller, ship- 

 pers of cape jasmine buds from this 

 town, has removed to Beading, Mich. 



A "Good Roads'' Vindow Display in a Soulhem Flower and Seed Store. 



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