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The Weekly Florists^ Review# 



March 11, 1909. 



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WASHINGTON. 



Inauguration Week. 



The first official act of President Taf t 

 was not, as it should have been, to fire 

 the weather man. Never did a govern- 

 ment official more richly deserve dis- 

 cipline, for not only, did the forecaster 

 fail to give warning of the unparalleled 

 storm which upset all the elaborate plans 

 for inauguration day, but he actually pre- 

 dicted that the drizzle of March 3 would 

 pass on and that we should have clear 

 skies for that quadrennial day of days 

 when all business Washington counts on 

 garnering what the highbrows call dross 

 and the shorthairs know as dough. The 

 rain, and snow, and sleet, and wind sim- 

 ply put an end to all business of a 

 transient nature with the florists. Of 

 course the social functions, for which 

 flowers had been ordered in advance, 

 were held as scheduled, but the business 

 would have been much larger had the 

 weather been good. It even was difficult 

 to secure the stock for orders that had 

 to be filled March 4 and 5. Practically 

 everything that comes in by rail was 

 hours behind time. 



The Inaugural Decorations. 



The big job of the week was the deco- 

 ration of the Pension building for the 

 ball. J. H. Small & Sons did this. It 

 was a rather more elaborate decoration 

 than usual and used up a great deal of 

 stock. The great inner court of the build- 

 ing was canopied with deep cream bunt- 

 ing and the walls were draped in the 

 same color. Everywhere the old ivory 

 tone was carried out, the only notes of 

 color being in the floral decorations 

 along the inner wall of the cloistered 

 archway extending around the building, 

 tier above tier, and in the massing of 

 azaleas, bougainvilleas, rambler roses and 

 other plants, forming a mass of blossoms 

 about the fountain in the center. 



The mural decoration of the cloistered 

 archway was purely of grouped flowering 

 plants and vines. These clusters of 

 greens and brilliant hued blossoms 

 crowned the spaces between the short pil- 

 lars of the colonnade running around the 

 hall, surmounting every arch. The domi- 

 nant note of color was the brilliant pink 

 of azaleas, which were used profusely, 



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being massed with other plants in trailing 

 smilax, asparagus, and festoons of south- 

 ern smilax and laurel. 



Azaleas, bougainvilleas, with rhodo- 

 dendrons of various hues, from shell pink 

 to magenta and mauve, were massed with 

 palms and tropical plants in the basin of 

 the fountain, which was filled with water, 

 though the jet of the fountain itself did 

 not play. Plants and flowers completely 

 covered the fountain proper, making a 

 small island in the center of the basin, 

 and the outer circle of plants was con- 

 nected with the island now and then by 

 tiny bridges of bark, the whole carrying 

 out a sort of grotto effect. Acacia, spi- 

 raea, and other tall and graceful plants 

 rose above the mass of clustered blossoms 

 here and there, giving the effect of a 

 suggestion of spring. 



The president's box was made the 

 brightest spot in the great scene, and in 

 the supper and other rooms the florists 

 had used much skill and stock. 



Gude Bros. Co. put up the decorations 

 in the court of honor on Pennsylvania 

 avenue, where President Taft reviewed 

 the great parade in spite of slush and 

 storm. It is a joke that in the baskets 



that surmounted the masts the Gudes had 

 used artificial waterproof flowers and 

 plants. In many respects the storm lent 

 a new and unexpected beauty to the set- 

 ting that framed the pageant. The White 

 House grounds presented an unbroken 

 sheet of snow and the trees all along the 

 route of the procession were heavily 

 laden with the glistening covering. The 

 court of honor, with its four orange and 

 white pylons, and its myriad Venetian 

 masts, looped together with hundreds of 

 yards of laurel garlands, stood out gay 

 and resplendent against a glittering 

 white background. Snow fringed the 

 shields and the garlands, and icicles clung 

 to every staff from which floated the 

 streamers inscribed with the monogram 

 "TS," for Taft and Sherman. 



All the leading stores, Shaeffer, Cooke, 

 Freeman, Kramer, Loose, Blackistone, 

 Marche and others, had a share of the 

 work for the innumerable dinners and 

 other affairs of the week. 



There were any number of visitors in 

 town, and quite a few florists among 

 them, but the train service was so inter- 

 rupted that thousands of people never 

 left the station; having arrived too late 

 for the spectacle, they took the first train 



