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The Florists' Review 



APBIL Id, 1914. 



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The Valley is Plentiful Eaough to Make up for the Absence of the Daily Gwsage. 



regular fancy ferua, the seed of which 

 helps to keep the water clear and 8weet, 

 and with a good keeping flower, such as 

 lily of the valley. In between the ferns 

 and valley can be arranged corsages, 

 one for each day of the voyage. For 

 the latter days of the voyage a cor- 

 sage of cypripediums, one of cattleyas, 

 one of dendrobiums and one of onci- 

 diums will be good. For the first two 

 or three days, sweet peas, gardenias, 

 violets, or something similar may be 

 used. If the corsages are each placed 

 in glass tubes of different sizes, they 

 will make an exceedingly good looking 

 box. The receiver can take out one 

 of the corsages each day without leav- 

 ing the box altogether empty, as the 

 valley, in ordinary conditions and if 

 well taken care of, will last tor the six 

 or seven days of the voyage. 



' ' The old way of packing the corsages 

 in boxes is losing more and more 

 ground, and the new arrangement of 

 the flowers in water deserves to gain 

 all that the old loses, and more. The 

 little extra work which this way of 

 sending out the flowers puts us to, 

 does not count when we consider that 

 all the steamer orders are given by 

 patrons who cannot go to see them and 

 must therefore trust to our judgment. 

 We owe this much to the public, which 

 knows about flowers only what we 

 teach, and the more our patrons know 

 about flowers, the better flower buyers 

 and flower utilizers they will be." 



PANSY COBSAOES. 



Everybody likes pansies and there is 



sure satisfaction in a well made corsage 

 bouquet of pansies; the bright-faced, 

 fresh little flowers make up splendidly. 

 To make a good corsage of pansies it is 

 necessary to wire the stems. Take a 

 fine wire and insert it in the stem; it 

 goes in easily; then the pansies will 

 stand up, you can put them where you 

 want them, and they will stay where 

 you put them. Also, no one ever will 



know that there is wire i^ the bou- 

 quet. For the back use violet lean'^es 

 and the bunch does not call for the use 

 of a shield. If a shield is wanted, how- 

 ever, one of dark green can be added. 

 Of course the stems will be covered 

 with green foil, and there will be added 

 a tie, preferably of medium width green 

 ribbon. 



THE LILIES BY THE SEA. 



Why Don't They Bloom for Me? 



C. M. Luther, of Lawrence, Kan., 

 says Easter trade was good, but some 

 of the lilies were too late, which in- 

 spired the following: 



Do the lilies bloom In Heaven? 



Do they bloom In Heaven for me? . 

 I remember well the story 



How they grew near Galilee. 



Dearest Master, If I ever 



Meet Thee at the crystal sea, 

 I will never need the lilies 



As tliey grew near Galilee. 5 ., 



But before- my Father's glory ^ 



And the joys prepared for ine, 

 I may still recall tlie story 



Of the lilies by the sea. 



SNAPS FOB MAY 30. 



We have recently started into the 

 florists' business on a small scale and 

 we would like to ask you how to have 

 snapdragons in bloom for Memorial 

 day. We started the seed in January 

 and the plants now are from four to 

 five inches high and strong looking. 



G. G. 



Your plants should be in flower all 

 right for the end 'of May, as growth is 

 much more rapid from this time on- 

 ward. The plants, I presume, are in 

 beds or benches. They should have a 

 space 8x8 or 10x10 inches, according to 

 the bushiness of the plants. The larg- 

 er space would give you heavier spikes, 

 but, as a rule, those of a medium size 

 are more salable for Memorial day. A 

 night temperature of 48 to 50 degrees 

 should not be exceeded. Be careful 

 not to use any strong fumigant, such 

 as tobacco stems or hydrocyanic acid 

 gas, where you are growing snapdrag- 

 ons. The tobacco papers and liquid 

 extracts are, however, quite safe. 



As the plants grow they will need 



A Zinc Liner and Water Keep the Flowers Fresh^During the Voyage. 



