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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Decembbb 29, 1910. 



a set piece is quite welcome and the 

 profit on it is large when you consider 

 that otherwise the flowers might have 

 gone to waste. 



Some Necessary Materials. 



Unles you are located in or near a 

 city where there is a firm that handles 

 florists' supplies, it would be well to 

 carry in stock a small quantity of 

 chenille in different colors — red, yellow, 

 blue, lavender, etc. This you will find 

 quite handy, not only for lettering, but 

 in carrying out little details in emblems. 

 A stock of immortelles in various colors 

 will also be found most useful. 



With the foregoing hints in mind, 

 suppose we now get down to business. 



Designs such as I will endeavor to 

 describe may be divided into three 

 kinds. First come society emblems; 

 then there are the fixed designs which 

 have been adopted by many labor 

 organizations, and, jastly, many firms or 

 minor clubs decidie^ upon some style of 

 design and use it on each occasion. In 

 the latter a florist can often suggest 

 some changes which will do away with 

 tedious work. 



The square and compass is, no doubt, 

 oftener called for than any other. This 

 has already been described. 



The Keystone. 



Outside of the lettering, there is noth- 

 ing elaborate about the keystone. The 

 frame should be filled perfectly flat. 

 Make a solid background, preferably 

 white, and fasten to it the lettering. If 

 some No. 10 or No. 12 wire is bent 

 around a flower pot and fastened to- 

 gether to form the rings containing the 



lettering, and then wound with chenille, 

 it will make a better looking job than 

 just a ring of chenille. A few roses or 

 valley in a corner will finish the piece. 

 The keystone shown in the illustra- 

 tion is excellently made. In the picture 

 of the cross and crown, however, the 

 cross appears to be disproportionately 

 heavy— a fault which should be care- 

 fully avoided. In a $5 design the crown 

 can be made of chenille, wrapped over a 

 single wire frame. 



The Eastern Star. 



Five colors are necessary in making 

 the eastern starj namely, red, blue, yel- 

 low, white and green. These colors are 

 used in the order given on a 5-pointed 

 star. When mounting the star, the white 

 point should point down; this will place 

 the red and blue points at the top. Run 

 each color to a point in the center. 



The Three Unks. 



The three links of the Odd Fellows 

 may be made in two ways, either en- 

 tirely of flowers, as in the illustration, 

 or by making the three links of chenille 

 and using a pillow or panel as a back- 

 ground. In order to correctly portray 

 the three links in flowers, each link 

 must be at least ten inches long. The 

 center link should be made in a dif- 

 ferent color, to show the interlacing 

 of the links. 



The Shriners' Design. 



The saber, crescent and star of the 

 Shriners makes a fine design, but it 

 can not well be made of all flowers 

 for $5;. $8 to $10 would be better. The 

 saber may be made up in yellow, to 



An Elk's Design. 



take the place of gold. Hanging from 

 the sword are the crescent and star. 

 The crescent should be white with the 

 exception of the tips, which should also 

 be made in yellow. The star should be 

 red. The design will show up best if 

 mounted on an easel. No lettering is 

 called for on this design. 



K. O. T. M. 



The K. O. T. M. design is a tent. 

 Make a panel of galax leaves, about 

 20x30 inches. In the center work out 

 a tent in white flowers. Instead of 

 coming to a point at the top, the tent 

 should have a round, overhanging top. 

 The entrance should be open, with the 

 canvas thrown to each side. By using, 

 for instance, pink carnations to repre- 

 sent the canvas flaps, you will be better 

 able to portray the under side of the 

 canvas. Under the tent lay out a strip 

 in white, on which to place the letters 

 K. O. T. M. To finish the piece, trim 

 the panel with a few roses, etc. The 

 number or name of the tent may be 

 placed overhead. 



The Christian Endeavor design is 

 quite simple, being merely a letter, C, 

 with the letter E inside. White would 

 be the best color in which to make up 

 this piece. The center bar in the E 

 should extend back to the C. 



Knights of Pythias. 



The design for the Knights of 

 Pythias is in the form of a shield, 

 divided into three parts. It is divided 

 by a single line halfway down the cen- 

 ter, and from this point it is divided 

 by two diverging lines, forming an in- 

 verted V. The upper field on the left 

 is in blue, the upper right in yellow 

 and the lower one in red. The letters 

 F. C. B. should be placed in the fields 

 of the shield in the order given. These 

 letters, if made up in white chenille,, 

 will show to good advantage. 



Knights of Columbus. 



The design for the Knights of Colum- 

 bus can be made particularly well in 

 flowers. The principal part of the 

 piece consists of a Maltese cross, the 

 upper and lower portions of which 

 should be white, and the sides red. 

 A sort of shield-shaped design is placed 

 upon the cross. The main part of this 

 shield is in blue. Wihile the design is 

 really quite simple, it is not easily de- 

 scribed. 



Modem Woodmen. 



The design for the Modern Woodmen 

 consists of a tree stump, ax, sledge ham- 

 mer and wedge. The stump is nard to 

 portray, except, perhaps, when placed 

 flat against a panel, and even then it 

 might be doubtful whether outsiders 

 would know what it was meant to rep- 

 resent, unless made with unusual care. 

 To my way of thinking, the best way 

 to make the design is by placing a 

 small sized woodmen's ax on a panel 

 nicely trimmed with flowers, and the 

 wording, "Modern Woodmen," on a 

 background of white flowers. 



I shall not attempt to describe any 

 more designs. There are so many of 

 tnem that even a brief reference to 

 them all would be almost an endless 

 task. If you can obtain a catalogue 

 from a jeweler you will find exact re- 

 productions of society emblems, which 

 will be a great help. Many of these 

 designs can scarcely be described, but 

 a picture will explain itself at once. 



In a $5 design a florist cannot go 



