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Have your Hallowe'en window dec- 

 oration photographed and send the pic- 

 ture to The Beview. 



A SPRAY OF MUMS. 



This is chrysanthemum season and 

 for the next six weeks the florist who 

 believes in using the stock that is 

 in vogue will feature the queen of 

 autumn flowers. Chrysanthemums may 

 be used in practically all the ways 

 other flowers are used. To the deco- 

 rator and the design maker who likes 

 bold, striking effects there is no flower 

 more serviceable. The accompanying 

 illustration shows a spray of white 

 chrysanthemums made by the Jones- 

 Russell Co., Cleveland. Note the use 

 of big bunches of violets with the rib- 

 bon tie. 



A CHRYSANTHEMUM WEDDING. 



Backed by a Wall of Oak Leaves. 



Here is a design for a wedding dec-: 

 oration, planned for a living room 12x 

 24 feet. The two ends of the room 

 were each occupied by an outside 

 door and a window on each side of the 

 <loors. One end was the front entrance 

 and the opposite one opened onto a 

 porch. Halfway down the length of 

 the room was a fireplace, the chimney 

 jutting three feet from the wall. To 

 the left of the rear window, on the 

 opposite side, was the stairway. The 

 ceremony was to take place at the rear 

 end of the living room, which, as was 

 just stated, was nearly all glass. 



A Complete Change of Scene. 



It was decided to eliminate these 

 features of the rear wall for the time 

 being by erecting a new wall, the first 

 layer of which consisted of a stretch 

 of poultry netting, from the picture 

 molding, close to the ceiling, to the 

 floor. On the sides the netting was 

 tacked securely to the edge of the win- 

 dow frames. From the picture mold- 

 ing, in the center of each window, was 

 hung a panel mirror, over the wire, 

 but flat against it. 



The next step was to fasten small 

 branches of autumn-tinted oak leaves 

 flat against the wire netting, till the 

 wire was completely covered. These 

 leaves also extended far enough over 

 the mirrors to hide their edges and cut 

 into their surfaces slightly and irregu- 

 larly. Next another layer of wire was 

 laid on, this time over the oak leaves. 

 This wire had previously been painted 

 bronze green. When pressed against 

 the bronze oak leaves it left a light, 

 spidery tracery over them. That part 

 which covered the surface of the mir- 

 ror was cut out. The netting is most 

 ^sily put on in sections of its own 

 Width, clinching the edges with wire. 



The Fireplace. 



Against the end of the jutting fire- 

 place, which stands opposite the mir- 



ror on one side, was a tangled panel 

 of bitter-sweet in berry. Opposite the 

 front of the fireplace, at the farther 

 wall, stood an upright piano. Its end 

 was opposite the left-hand mirror. A 

 rattan screen, covered with the bitter- 

 sweet and set against the end of the 

 piano, made a companion piece to that 

 on the end of the fireplace. Thus the 

 mirror panels both reflected the bitter- 

 sweet, otherwise scarcely visible to the 

 guests facing the wedding party. 



Two tall jars of handsome yellow 

 mums were set behind the bridal party, 

 against the oak wall. The flowers 

 drooped outward like a canopy over 

 their heads. About the base of each 

 vase was a group of potted plants of 

 the same variety, thus carrying the 

 color effect to the floor. A newel post 

 decoration consisted of a high-handled 

 basket of the same flowers. The balus- 

 trade was trimmed with a mat of oak 

 leaves, woven in and out the entire 

 length of the stairway. 



The Mantel. 



The brick mantel was banked with 

 fern plants, ranging in variety through 

 Parleyense, cuneatum and Croweanum 

 to gracillimum. The wall space above 

 the mantel, being a light buff, was cov- 

 ered with a lace-like tracery of sepa- 

 rate smilax sprays, held in place by 

 strands of No. 36 wire fastened to the 

 picture molding. A single vase of me- 

 dium sized yellow mums stood against 



Spray of Chrysanthemumt by the Jones-Russell Co., Cleveland. 





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