NOVEMBKU 3, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



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I THE RETAIL 



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POMPONS FOR TABLE WORK. 



Pompon chrysanthemums are again 

 beginning to make their appearance in 

 considerable quantity and during the 

 next few weeks will be more extensive- 

 ly used than ever before. Larger quan- 

 tities are being grown than in any pre- 

 ceding year. 



The popularity of the pompon is of 

 comparatively recent date. A few years 

 ago it was scarcely ever seen, but the 

 success with which some retail florists 

 used it in decorative work was so great 

 that the small flowers sprang into im- 

 mediate favor and were in large re- 

 quest. 



For table decorations few flowers are 

 finer than pompons. They are adapted 

 to practically every kind of arrange- 

 ment which is possible on a dinner 

 table. The accompanying illustration 

 is reproduced from a photograph of a 

 dinner decoration arranged by George 

 H. Cooke, the well known Washington 

 retailer, and is an excellent example 

 of graceful arrangement after the high 

 style. It will be noted in this particu- 

 lar, that Mr. Cooke used an extremely 

 tall, thin-stemmed, glass vase, thereby 

 elevating the heaviest part of his ar- 

 rangement above the eyes of the seated 

 dinner guests and thus avoiding the ob- 

 scuring of the view across the table. 



THANKSGIVING WINDOWS. 



Importance of Good Displays. 



Among the preparations for Thanks- 

 giving none is more important than the 

 decoration of the window — or, better 

 still, the windows — ^for the week or ten 

 days preceding the festive occasion. 

 Two or three, windows, or changes of 

 window decoration, are not too much 

 for this period. All the time one can 

 spare is not too much to devote to this 

 work, and if trade is not what it ought 

 to be, then something new and better 

 should be devised for the window dis- 

 plays. 



Of course, mums are the principal at- 

 traction, with violets as a close second, 

 while the old favorites, the carnations, 

 keep their steady patrons. All these, 

 then, with the roses, must be displayed 

 to good advantage — not all at once, 

 however, nor yet any one flower too 

 exclusively. No Thanksgiving window 

 is complete without the addition of fruit 

 or grain. Cornstalks, oats, or wheat 

 sheaves, autumn leaves, pumpkins, cat- 

 tails, all have wonderful capacities for 

 developing the flowers just mentioned. 



A Fence Corner, With Frequent Changes. 



A window which represents a corner 

 of a field, with a rail fence against 

 which you may set a large group of 

 cosmos, with tall ferns to hide the 

 vase and with a liberal display of 

 violets in rustic hampers, makes a good 

 decoration for fall or Thanksgiving. 

 Numerous combinations, with this as a 



theme, may be introduced, perhaps one 

 each day; for instance, by adding yel- 

 low, white or bronze chrysanthemums, 

 or the heliotrope or pink mums. Or, 

 use the pink cosmos with a good blend- 

 ing color of pink mums, with or with- 

 out the violets. 



For another change, scatter wood- 

 bine leaves all over the floor and use 

 the same vine to trail along the fence 

 on one side. Against the other side of 

 the fence, and in the corner, set a 

 quantity of white or cream chrysanthe- 

 mums. In the open space toward the 

 front of the window, use hampers of 

 smaller mums and white grapes. 

 Another: Use oak leaves for the floor, 

 and cornstalks, with yellow and bronze 

 mums, for the large central group. These 

 should be grouped in striking masses, 

 with a few scattering out from the 

 central point. Another: Bronze and 

 yellow mums, with cat-tails for the tall 



of ti iniltiviitod variety or the native 

 varieties. Anytliing in that line will 

 do which has the style and length; for 

 example, foxtail, ribbon grass, or 

 natural-colored pampas plumes. If 

 seeded, so much the better. Be shy of 

 much ribbon or chiffon. 



One immense corn shock, with a great 

 vase of mums in the center, is a good 

 Thanksgiving window design and may 

 be adapted to church platforms or to 

 banquet or dance hall decorations. 

 If space permits, several shocks 

 may be used at convenient dis- 

 tances. Do not crowd them. This plan 

 would make a good cozy corner decora- 

 tion in a large room, for any social af- 

 fair. Pumpkins, with smaller flowers of 

 the same color as the mums, may be 

 strewn among the shocks to complete 

 the picture. A violet and green window 

 may be adapted from the same plan. 

 Use deep heliotrope mums in the shocks, 

 and dishes of violets placed inside of. 

 cabbage heads from which the centers 

 have been removed. 



The General Color and the Background. 



In the foregoing color jjlaus the pinks 

 will be found the more brilliant for 

 evening, and the yellow the richer for 

 daylight decorations, t'urple or violet 

 develops a red tinge in artificial light. 



Any of the designs described will be 

 improved by a background which par- 

 takes of the character of the design 



Table Decoration of Pompon Chrysanthemums. 



portion against the fence and a pump- 

 kin jardiniere out in front, filled with 

 smaller mums. 



A Complete Change of Scene. 



Then, to change the entire scheme, 

 have one basket set on a floor of loose 

 wheat, native or bleached. Let the 

 color scheme for the basket be pink 

 mums or mums and cosmos, with a 

 liberal addition of long grass, either 



itself. To illustrate: Place at the back 

 of the window a large screen of burlap, 

 preferably dark green, with a spray or 

 border of cat-tails or cornstalks, or a 

 side wall which can be paneled with 

 wheat straws or small sheaves, or with 

 grass, whichever is used in the principal 

 display piece. 



Long-leaved Boston ferns are excep- 

 tionally good with grain stalks. A 

 stump filled with an immense cluster of 



