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The Rorists' Review 



May 7, 1914. 



Two HalE Diamonds With a Border, Planting for a Single Grave« 



side and the ecbeverias on the other, 

 are filled with yellow alternantheras. 

 Perhaps it should be admitted here, 

 since it is too evident to be denied, 

 that the santolinas bordering the dia-; 

 mond were sadly in need of trimming. 

 But The Keview's photographer wanted 

 pictures of certain beds, whether — to 

 use a vulgar metaphor — they had re- 

 cently had their hair cut or not. 



A Maltese Cross. 



The bed shown in the third illustra- 

 tion is in the form of a Maltese cross 

 and is similar in outline and general 

 appearance to one of the beds pic- 

 tured in The Review two years ago, but 

 is planted in a less intricate manner. 

 In the present instance the four arms 

 of the cross are filled with red alter- 

 nantheras and edged all around, both 

 at the ends and sides, with the so- 

 called yellow alternantheras. In other 

 w^ords, the whole body of the cross 

 itself is outlined with greenish yellow 

 and filled with.red. The entire bed is 

 surrounded by a double border, con- 

 sisting of a row of Scbeveria secunda 

 glauca on the outside, and then a row 

 of red alternantheras between the 

 echeverias and the greenish yellow edg- 

 ing of the cross. The spaces between 

 the arms of the cross are planted with 

 yellow alternantheras. Tnese .spaces, 

 at the wider part, are in the shape of 

 little oval mounds, but contract into 

 narrow lines at the four corners of the 

 bed, in each of which is planted an 

 Eeheveria metallica. In the center of 

 the bed is a larger E. metallica. 



For Single Orave, witb Border. 



The bed that is next in order is no- 

 ticeable for the fact that, though it is 

 intended to cover only one grave, it 

 has a border which extends about eight 

 inches beyond the edge of the mound 

 on each side. This border, which con- 

 sists of an outer row of echeverias and 

 an inner row of red alternantheras, is 

 separated from the bed itself by a nar- 

 row strip of sod. On the inner side of 

 the strip of sod is a row of echeverias 

 and within these are two half dia- 

 monds, edged with santolinas and filled 

 with yellow alternantheras. The trian- 

 l^lar spaces at each end of the bed are 

 filled with Alternanthera rosea. The 

 slanting space in the middle of the bed, 

 between the two half diamonds, is 



filled with red alternantheras, with an 

 Eeheveria metallica in the center. 



A Scroll Design. ' 



The fifth and last, and apparently 

 most complicated, piece of planting 

 illustrated here, is the one which Mr. 

 Fruetz calls a scroll design. It would 

 not look so intricate if it were not for 

 the fact that the plants needed trim- 

 ming at the time the photograph was 

 taken, and the foliage had grown so 

 rank as to obliterate, to some extent, 

 the lines of the scroll. However, if 

 the reader will look sharply, he will be 

 able to trace part of a winding line of 

 echeverias which approaches close to 

 the edge of the bed at the four cor- 

 ners, but curves inward as it leaves the 

 corners. In each of the four loops of 

 the scroll, near the corners of the bed, 

 is a large eeheveria, E. Californica. 

 The irregular border outside of the 

 eeheveria scroll consists of Alternan- 

 thera rosea. On the inner side of the 



eeheveria scroll are, first, a -row of red 

 alternantheras, then a row of the green- 

 ish yellow • alternantheras, 'iA.' aurea 

 nana, and then a number of Alternan- 

 thera versicolor, filling the rest of the 

 space, except a small area in the cen- 

 ter, where are two little oval spaces 

 with the Eeheveria metallica between 

 them. The two ovals are filled with 

 yellow alternantheras. 



WHO MERITS TBADE PRICES? 



It is the policy of The Review to de- 

 cline with thanks subscriptions tendered 

 by those not in the trade. The reason 

 is that nearly all the advertisers in The 

 Review refuse to sell the stock as ad- 

 vertised except to those in the trade. 

 It is not the business of The Review 

 to say who is and who is not entitled 

 to trade prices; that is up to 'each indi- 

 vidual Advertiser. It is a perfectly 

 simple thing to decline orders not to 

 the seller 's liking, and The Review be- 

 lieves it to be the duty of wholesalers 

 to protect the retail trade. 



But the question of who is and who is 

 not entitled to buy at wholesale is one 

 not easily determined. When it comes 

 to actual practice there is no sharply 

 defined line separating the sheep and 

 the goats. Thousands of men are flo- 

 rists and nurserymen and yet derive 

 their principal income from some other 

 ocoupation or business. The United 

 States government in 1910 included in 

 the census of floriculture and the 

 nursery trade 6,282 who reported an in- 

 come of less than $250 each, for the 

 year 1909, from the sale of flowers or 

 plants. In making the census of 1900 

 those were counted as florists or nursery- 

 men who derived twenty per cent of 

 their income from these lines. No such 

 test is possible to the wholesaler seek- 

 ing to protect his customers who retail. 

 A man apparently in the machinery 

 business was questioned to see if his 

 subscription was wanted by The Re- 

 view. He showed a bill from a leading 

 gladiolus grower for $180 worth of bulbs 

 at trade prices and said a hobby had 

 developed into quite a business. An- 



A Scroll Dedgn for Use on a Single Grave. 



