The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Septembbb 2, 1909. 



sign on it, allowing the meshes to show 

 liberally; /that is, leave parts of the 

 nettin^^-«xpo8ed where the design does 

 not extend, or cover the whole netting 

 as a background and set a large display 

 piece of yellow mums in a basket or vase, 

 or other pottery receptacle which is in 

 itself quite undecorated. This scheme 

 would be acceptable for a fall wedding 

 or reception background. Oak leaves 

 would make bronze wedding bells, with 

 mum clappers. 



Oak and other rich autumn leaves as 

 background work for casket sprays are 

 too well known and appreciated to need 

 much comment. The deep reds are fine 

 for almost any color of mums except for 

 the heliotrope pinks. These will be shown 

 to better advantage with the duller 

 bronze. 



Mums of Duller Hue. 



The duller colored mums are more 

 ticklish to handle and colorize correctly. 

 Try those inclined to heliotrope with 

 creams; combine light yellow with violet, 

 deeper shades of .their own color, Farley- 

 ense, Asparagus plumosus, pine boughs, 

 pink cosmos or wild asters, and tie with 

 orchid ribbon lighter in color than them- 

 selves. "With the dull bronzes and yel- 

 lows use cat-tails, light but distinct yel- 

 lows and creams, bronze reds, yellow and 

 brown pansies, brilliant autumn foliage 

 in yellow, bronze and red, yellow-green 

 foliage and autumn shaded moire ribbon, 

 with the possible addition of light, vari- 

 egated grass and natural wheat. 



These dull, neutral colors are to be 

 seized upon with all eagerness for their 

 toning abilities. They will set off a few 

 straggling, bright, odd colors which fight 

 with the favorite, orthodox colors. A 

 vase of them off by themselves some- 

 where in the store often makes a sale 

 without effort. Occurring most com- 

 monly in the bronze and heliotrope colors, 

 they can often be mated with the brilliant 

 tints of the opposite color. 



Heliotrope Pink Mums. 



Speaking of the more decided helio- 

 trope pink mums reminds one of the 

 many soft combinations which may be 

 brought about them and wild asters, with 

 cosmos, with light heliotrope phlox if it 

 survives, with violets, with Carnot, Golden 

 Gate or Uncle John roses. With most 

 shades and tints of this color of mums, 

 Bridesmaid or Killarney or equally deep 

 pink roses are a trifle too strong. The 

 more brilliant and deeper yellow mums 

 take, as harmonious settings, cat-tails, 

 light creamy tints of mums, Shasta 

 daisies, white cosmos. Hydrangea panicu- 

 lata in its bronze stage, touches of gray 

 foliage as found in Florida moss, poplar 

 leaves or birch bark, and ties of change- 

 able green and gray ribbon. 



An array of gay colors in mums, soft- 

 ened and blended and separated by 

 autumn foliage, along with their own 

 foliage, may be used throughout a range 

 of colors for decorative purposes. 



Centerpiece for Banquet Table. 



Beginning with the white, let us in 

 imagination arrange a centerpiece for a 

 long banquet table. At one end, after 

 placing the whites, introduce a light yel- 

 low. Use enough of these to emphasize 

 the color, and run into the medium and 

 thenc« to the pumpkin color, which in 

 turn you displace with the bronze. By 

 this time the center of the table is 

 reached or passed, and it is time to begin 

 with the reds. Some of them have old- 

 gold reverse petals. This will connect 

 easily the reds and yellows. After plant- 



ing a little patch of the pure reds, we 

 have reached the most critical point of 

 coloring. There is a slender connection 

 made by a few varieties between the pure 

 reds and the heliotrope. Mum foliage 

 and some browH foreign "foliage will aid. 

 Dull the off end of the red section with 

 this brown and a few of the salmon pink 

 mums, also few and far between. Then 

 find a pink which is neither one nor the 

 other, and then one which leans toward 

 the heliotrope. Then, after having been 

 liberal with the green, you have your 

 connection made and can revel in the 

 heliotrope pinks from light to dark. 



Thus the rainbow scheme is completed 

 without violation of our color conscience. 

 With all this, bear in mind that lavenders 



Tower of Vegetables and Greens. 



and purples take on a redder hue by 

 artificial light, that yellows lose cast and 

 salmon pinks deepen. 



Chrysanthemum foliage is often seen 

 tinted brown or red, and is as good a 

 developer as green foliage. 



Combinatioos in Spray Work. 



For spray work, asters and elderberry 

 flowers make an agreeable combination, 

 and in later decorative work the umbels 

 of elderberries themselves are good with 

 white, light yellow or heliotrope mums. 



The foliage of many conifers is almost 

 as feathery as asparagus or adiantum — 

 the hemlock and larch, for instance. Try 

 them with Japanese mums or the plumy 

 types of asters, always preferring their 

 own foliage, but using the conifer foliage 

 where extra foliage is needed. 



Hydrangeas and phlox are acceptable 

 in large sprays or heavy design work, 

 only it takes a watchful eye to avoid 



combining the salmon pink of the hy- 

 drangea with the many variations of the 

 heliotrope pink phlox. With these large, 

 heavy flowers, wide satin or moire ribbon 

 is preferable to chiffon. 



White asters and Shasta daisies' take 

 kindly to each other in the bases of 

 pieces, in centerpieces or in basket work; 

 also rose colored asters combine well with 

 pink and white cosmos. Gladioli of the 

 violet pink order make a worthy spray 

 with an upright bunch of violets in the 

 lavender ribbon tie. 



Gertrude Blair. • 



FLORISTS BUILD TOWER. 



The George Wittbold Co., Chicago, 

 often is called on for some strong stunts 

 in the line of decorative work. The con- 

 cern is the principal reliance of the deco- 

 rative staffs of several of the large State 

 street department stores and almost al- 

 ways is asked for a bid whenever a big 

 fair or business show is proposed in the 

 city. 



Last week the Schwaben Verein held its 

 big picnic at Brand's park and the cen- 

 tral feature of the decoration was a 50- 

 foot tower of vegetables and greens, 

 erected by the Wittbold force. 



IOWA FLORISTS MEET. 



The seventh annual meeting of the 

 Society of Iowa Florists was held at the 

 State House, Des Moines, on the even- 

 ing of September 1, the members, who 

 include most of the leading florists of 

 the state, having spent the day at the 

 State Fair. The officers who conducted 

 the reunion were: President, C. N. 

 Page, Des Moines; vice-president, J. S. 

 Wilson, Des Moines; secretary, Wesley 

 Greene, Davenport; treasurer, Peter 

 Lambert, Des Moines. The directors 

 were: G. A. Heyne, Dubuque; J. T. 

 Temple, Davenport; W. M. Bomberger, 

 Harlan; P. L. Larson, Fort Dodge. 



The program for the meeting was as 

 follows : 



1. Call to Order. 



2. Reading the Minutes of PreTlous Meeting. 



3. Treasurer's Report. 



4. President's Address. 



5. "Gladioli," by Henry Field, Shenandoah. 



6. "Begonias," by C. W. Darison, Des Moines. 



7. "Irises," by John T. Temple, Davenport. 

 S. "Dahlias," by W. M. Bomberger, Harlan. 

 0. "Annual and Tender Vines for Outdoor 



Planting," by G. A. Heyne, Dubuque. 



10. "Notes on Bedding Plants in Parks," by 

 J. T. D. Fulmer, Des Moines. 



11. "Plants of Recent Introduction that are of 

 Value to the Trade," by J. S. Wilson, Des 

 Moines. 



LILIES FOR EARLY EASTER. 



I should like to know if I will be safe 

 in relying on giganteum bulbs for my 

 crop for the coming Easter. 



W. M, N. 



I am growing Lilium longiflorum gi- 

 ganteum for next Easter, although it will 

 be difficult to have them in time. I 

 would say that it would be safer for 

 a grower who has not much experience 

 in forcing lilies to use Harrisii or multi- 

 florum this season. 



Emil Buettneb. 



We feel that giganteum can be got in 

 for Easter, but that it will require con- 

 siderable forcing. We are going to use 

 about half Harrisii and half giganteum 

 for our own crop for next Easter. 



A J. F. Wilcox. 



Litchfield, Conn. — The Rosemore 

 Nursery Co. is putting a new heating 

 system into its greenhouse. 



