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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



27 



Some of the Specimen Plants Exhibited at New York by W. H. Waite, Gardener for Samuel Untermyer. 



gardener for Win. Rockefeller. His va- 

 rieties were Airs. J. K. Dunn, bronze; 

 Mary ]\Ias;ui, red; Mrs. II. Partridge, 

 red; ]\Iarion Haiikey. jtink; I.,ady Hope- 

 town, ]dnk; F. S. Vallis. yellow; Bea- 

 trice ^lay, wliite; Glenview, yellow, and 

 Viscount N'enusta, pink. 



The judges were Peter Duff. Ale.x. "Me 

 Kenzie ami \\m. Scott. 



The attepdanee was good. There were 

 a number of trade \isitf)rs from New 

 York. 



AMHERST, MASS. 



The class in lioricidture at tlie Mas 

 sa(dnisetts Agrienltural College held an 

 exhibition Novendjer •"), of talile decora- 

 tions, there being ten tables, each being 

 the work of two men eiiteiing as a team. 

 Chrysanthemiuns were the llowcrs used. 

 I'^irst jn'ize was awarded to l[. I'\ Wil- 

 lard :niil ( '. .1. (!reen, second to I. W. 

 Davis and K. ^I. Hrown. The .indges 

 were II. W. Field, I'rof. A. S. Kinney 

 and Dr. \V. 1>. Lancaster. 



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FOR THANKSGIVING. 



Table Decorations. 



Table and window displays are the two 

 things which demand tin? attention of the 

 average llorist for Thanksgiving, with 

 the addition of some corsage bomjuets or 

 occasionally some wedding work. lu 

 many cases a table decoration for tlie 

 window or front of the store would be a 

 telling advertisement. Let the table be 

 set with silver in the l)est manner possi 

 ble, and let a neat, simple decoration be 

 added and idianged each day. 



Among the accessories of cut flowers 

 for the Thanksgiving dinner table are 

 the autumn leaves, bittersweet berries, 

 pepper tree branches, milkweeil po<ls, cat- 

 tails and all su(di wild material of which 

 wo never grow tired, and the wheat, 

 puinjjkins and frnit. The newness of the 

 decoration will not appear so much in 

 the material used as in the way in which 

 it is used. The few examples which shall 

 be given h(>re are not intended to be 

 rigid patterns, but as mere suggestions, 

 winch shall stinnilate each one to seize 

 upon other suitable material from his 



own greeidiouse, garden or woods, and in 

 many ca.ses more artistic condiinations 

 may lie discovered. 



A basket of fruit is the most commoii 

 place affair that could be nieiitioneil. but 

 yet how delightfully inviting may be the 

 coud)ination of fruit, foliage and flow 

 ers I it may be decorated in a hundred 

 different \vays ; lii're are a few: A low 

 basket of grapes, triiniiie(| low on the 

 si(|e of the handle with a jdaiit of ailian 

 tum or a tduster of the fionds. ;incl high 

 on the other sid(» with a buncli of \iolets. 

 with their own foliage and a yellow 

 autumn l(\af; the same basket tippcl 

 slightly over a table mirror, with fruit 

 lying on the mirror, loose flowers and 

 ferns decorating the eilge of the mirror, 

 and an ap[)art'ntly unattache<l spray of 

 flowers fallitig toward the high edge of 

 the ba-sket and out over it ; a Japanese 

 tray basket lined with autumn leaves, 

 with stems of two chrysanthemums f(d 

 lowing the handle and flowers caught 

 against each other at the top — this for 

 serving frnit or nn^rely for a decorafi\e 

 centerpiece. 



For Long Tables. 



I-'or a long table get a number of very 

 small jiumpkins and attach at irregular 

 intervals along a line, composed of a 

 number of strings of sniilax, which ex- 

 tends from oi:e end of the table to the 

 oilier. SoHU' may stand right side up, the 

 \ine passing uj) over and around the stem 

 jMid down again. ( )thers may lie on their 

 ^ides, but some! nmy be S(!ooped out and 

 a ><mall vase set in to hold a few suitably 

 sized flowers. The line of siuilax should 

 t:ike a meandering course along the cen- 

 ter of the table. Set a few candles, with 

 l)umpkin-colored shades, on brass candle- 

 sticks along at intervals between the 

 pumjikins. If it can be diuu! without 

 crowding the table or obscuring the vine, 

 scatter some; dee|) yellow nuims on the 

 table, keeping the stem lines in coinci- 

 dence with the smilax line. 



Another, for a long oval or rectangular 

 table: Have a round center plaque of 

 flowers or ferns, and at each end a low 

 crescent of fruit and flowers pointing 

 toward the center. lla\e nothing scat- 

 tered about between these fractions of 

 the decoration. Their lines \\ill keep 

 their relations a|)pai-ent. Any other li'a 

 ture would make a confusion of lines. 



An all gri'en piei-e might be iiuule of 

 grapes and adiantum.s, but one can 

 scarcidy resist adding sonu' \ iolets or 

 jiink to the color i)lan. 



Vellow or bronze seems to be the 

 Thanksgiving c(d(U', as scarlet is the 

 I'hristmas color, and how to use a few 

 ( lirysantliemums on an ordinary table in 

 an out (if t heordinai'v way is the problem 

 tor the axcrage customer. 



Mums With Leaves or Fruit. 



Here is something easy to des(!ribe and 

 easy to do: Make a little support of 

 green moss, three or four inches high, on 

 the center of the table. Bind together 

 carelessly a li.alf dozen or nine incurved 

 mums and a bit of autumn foliage with 

 wire. Cover the wire with a narrow band 

 of birch bark, and lay the bunch on the 

 moss so that the flowers will bo free to 

 swing and hold u[) from the table in the 

 recdining jmsition. 



Something else: Lay a convenient 

 luimber of chrvsanthemums in a narrow 



