



ThcWcckly Florists^ Review* 



October 26, 1911. 



a, plant of Farleyense on one end of 

 . the mantel. 



If anyone wished to use this plan and 

 elaborate upon it, the wall of oak 

 leaves could be extended all the way 

 around the room. Against it a border 

 of vases, each holding one large chrys- 

 anthemum, could be added. These 

 vases should stand high enough to be 

 seen just above the heads of the guests. 



mums, with the 



stems of each mum 

 laid lengthwise at either end of the 

 group. One mum with its filling of val- 

 ley, and accompanied by the stem like 

 ^the tail of a comet, occupied each end 

 of the rectangular table. The stem 

 trailers pointed toward the center. 



That the mums, thus treated, lose any^ 

 of their value artistically, would 

 scaraely ,be admitted even by the most 



TMs Auto Contains a Befrigerating as Well as a Heating Plant. 



Facing the mirrors, leave a panel of 

 the window glass free of the wire, ar- 

 range the bitter-sweet panels outside 

 of the windows and illuminate with a 

 single electric light so that only the 

 diffused light is thrown upon the bitter- 

 sweet, the globe itself being out of 

 sight. 



The Dining Boom. 



For the dining room, which opens 

 from the living room by a double en- 

 trance to the right of the front door, 

 were arranged two features only. Un- 

 till after the ceremony the dining room 

 was closed by two rattan screens 

 swung from the sides of the double 

 doorway. These were trimmed solidly, 

 hut not heavily, with bitter-sweet. 

 Connecting the two screens, the com- 

 bined width of which did not quite 

 »span the width of the doorway, was 

 ;i drape of wide orange satin ribbon, 

 <aught with a long loop and end from 

 the upper corner of one screen to the 

 lower corner of the opposite screen. A 

 thin garland of smilax was caught and 

 draped with the ribbon. When dinner 

 was announced, the screens were swung 

 back against the walls of the dining 

 room on each side of the entrance, mak- 

 ings decorative panels on the walls. 



The Bride's Table. 



The bride's table was done quite sim- 

 ply in valley and yellow mums. The 

 mums were of the loose sort, incurved 

 and large. The flowers were cut from 

 their stems. But wait — the stems were 

 a part of the scheme too. The flowers 

 were laid face up on the table and 

 used aa centerpieces for the valley. 

 Tiny moss baskets, with the handles re- 

 moved, were filled with valley and 

 foliage and set in the mum flowers. 

 There was a central group of fine 



fastidious. It certainly is a welcome 

 change from the overheavy, vulgar 

 table displays so often seen. It seems 

 from some of these decorations, called 

 so by courtesy, that many florists fairly 

 tumble over themselves in the attempt 

 to pile in a little more than the last 

 man has done. It is the fault of the 

 craft that there is such a demand for 

 showy work. Just as good " a price 

 might as well be had for more taste, 

 more designing and less material. 



G. B. 



IS THIS THE ULTIMATE? 



The automobile shown in the accom- 

 panying illustration is said to be the 

 first in the world to be equipped witli 

 a refrigerator system for the preserva 

 tion of flowers in course of delivery 

 during the hot months. Bight to the 

 other extreme, it also is fitted with a 

 patent exhaust apparatus which heats 

 the wagon body in cold weather, just 

 as florists heretofore have done bj- 

 means of the portable wagon warmer. 

 The car is the one just p'ut on the 

 streets of St. Louis by Grimm & Gorly. 

 Its capacity is one ton. It is equipped 

 with electric lights, both inside and 

 outside. The machine was made by the 

 Grabowsky Power Wagon Co., Detroit. 



FOB A WEDDING DINNEB. 



Charles G. Pahud, manager of the 

 Pahud Floral Co., Indianapolis, deco- 

 rated the table for the dinner following 

 the recent Pahud-Asperger wedding, 

 shown in the accompanying illustration. 

 The centerpiece consisted of a large 

 wedding cake placed upon a mirror 30 x 

 36 inches, bordered by White Killarney 

 roses through which were strung sixteen 

 small incandescent lamps. On each side 

 of the wedding cake was a large vase 

 of White Killarney roses set among 

 palms, ferns and crotons, through which 

 were strung 100 small incandescent 

 lamps. The table was 10 x 16 feet and 

 seated twenty-four people. 



THE HOLLYWOOD OABDENS. 



There is no part of the United States 

 in which the florists' business is show- 

 ing more rapid development than has 

 been the case in the Pacific north- 

 west in the last few years. The cities 

 there have grown at a prodigious rate, 

 and floriculture has kept pace. Take 

 Seattle, for instance. At the census 

 of 1900 its population was 80,671, 

 while in 1910 it was 237,194, an in- 

 crease of 194 per cent. There are only 

 seven cities in the whole country that 

 showed as large a percentage of 

 growth, and of these only one, Los An- 

 geles, was as large as Seattle ten years 

 ago, or is as large today. Is it any 



Dinner Decoratiofi by Pahud Floral Gh, Indianapolis. 



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