MAT 2, 1»12. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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Funeral Wreath of Gaiaz and Rotes. 



and, if he has a few flowers left — well, 

 in they go for luck too. The result is 

 ii crowded mass of flowers, a poor effect 

 from a large quantity of stock. 



The experienced wreath maker, on 

 the other hand, will use far fewer flow- 

 ors, but will make every one tell. Each 

 l^loom stands out by itself and can be 

 wen, while, with the addition here 

 !ind there of a little adiantum or some 

 other green, a perfect wreath results, 

 with little expenditure for stock. 



Natural and Acquired Skill. 



Perhaps there is no other phase of 

 work so difficult to give advice upon 

 as the arrangement of flowers. So 

 much lies in aptitude for the work, 

 i^kill in color and form blending, and 

 a knowledge of what is fitting in vari- 

 ous circumstances. Some men never get 

 the knack of it; with others it comes 

 natural, but all will find that the best 

 I'esults follow when every flower and 

 every leaf shows distinctly. A blur of 



colors is not a picture, and a mass of 

 flowers without any form or shape is 

 not good work. 



Each man must study and experiment 

 for himself and be always on the look- 

 out for newer and more striking ideas 

 than he has been following. Only in 

 this way can continued artistic success 

 be expected in wreath making, as in 

 any other branch of the florists' work. 



ANOTHEB SWINDLE. 



In New York a young man has been 

 arrested on a charge of grand larceny 

 made by John Changuris, of the firm 

 of Changuris Bros., florists at 980 Sixth 

 avenue. It is charged that he obtained 

 flowers from Changuris by representing 

 himself over the telephone as one of 

 the florists ' regular customers. It is 

 alleged by Changuris that April 3 some 

 one called up his place on the telephone, 

 gave the name of the customer and de- 

 sired to have a bunch of roses sent to 



the Savoy theater. The flowers were 

 delivered there by a messenger _ boy. 

 This same procedure was followed, ac- 

 cording to Changuris, April 6 and 

 April 18. At the conclusion of this 

 last delivery the bill was nearly $70 

 and Changuris became su8]()icipu9' The 

 messenger boy described the man to 

 whom he had delivered the flowers. It 

 was not the customer. When the same 

 kind of a telephone message was next 

 received Mr. Changuris went to the 

 theater with the messenger boy and 

 caused -the arrest of the man who was 

 waiting to receive the flowers. 



FLOBAL WORK AT THE U. OF I. 



• During the last half semester four 

 students in floriculture at the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois have been taking the 

 course in floral decoration. The object 

 of this course is to give the students a 

 knowledge of decorative materials and 

 their uses. The lectures of the course 



