MAY 2, 1012. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Blaoket Design in Carpet Bcddiog on a Grave at Rosehjil Cemetery, Chicago. 



and there were about forty plants in the 

 santolina edging. About fifty, in all, 

 of the yellow alternantheras were used 

 for the solid work in the ends and back 

 of the bed. 



Blanket Design, for Single Grave. 



The blanket design in the foreground 

 of the illustration on this pag^ covered 

 a space about 31^x6 feet. It was sur- 

 rounded by what may be termed a triple 

 I'order — first, on the outside, a row of 

 sixty-five Echeveria secunda glauca, 

 then seventy-five red alternantheras, 

 and next sixty santolina. Two oval de- 

 signs, each 5x9 inches, extended length- 

 wise through the middle of the bed, 

 with a round design, six inches in 

 diameter, on each side. These four small 

 designs were filled with yellow alter- 

 nantheras, about fifty plants in all, and 

 were all enclosed in an echeveria bor- 

 <ier, containing a total of about sixty 

 plants. The filling in the body of the 

 bed, surrounding the four small de- 



signs just described, -consisted of \red 

 alternantheras, about 100 of them. 



A ^arp. 



The harp pictured on page 18 was ten 

 feet high, eight feet across the top and 

 three feet across the base. Tht base con- 

 tained about sevfeB.ty Echeveria secunda 

 glauca, and th^e was a single row of 

 echeverias across the pedestal, a little 

 farther up. The lower half of the pedes- 

 tal, under the single row of echeverias, 

 was filled with eighty Alternanthera 

 rosea; the upper half of the pedestal 

 contained about fifty yellow alternan- 

 theras. The four large plants were 

 Echeveria metallica. The twenty harp 

 strings were made of santolina, about 

 200 in all, with a background of about 

 200 yellow alternantheras. There was 

 one Echeveria secunda glauca at the 

 lower end of each string. The tuning- 

 pins or wrest-pins, at the upper end 

 of each string, were represented by a 

 variety of «cheveria which Mr. Fruetz 



habitually refers to simply as "the 

 keys"; he thinks they are Echeveria 

 Desmetiana, also known as E. Pea- 

 cockii. The neck or top part of the 

 harp, the back or soundboard, at the 

 right, and the pillar, at the left, 

 were all made of red alternantheras; 

 this required about 200 plants. Running 

 through the red of the soundboard and 

 neck was a slender, trailing design of 

 yellow alternantheras. The pillar also 

 was crossed lightly by yellow alternan- 

 theras, placed in slanting, parallel lines, 

 so as to have the appearance of wreath- 

 ing twisted around the pillar in spiral 

 form. These slender yellow lines were 

 a most effective feature, though they do 

 not show in the picture. 



A Maltese Cross, on Two Qraves. 



The other illustration on page 18 

 shows a Maltese cross design, 5x6 feet 

 in size and covering two graves. The 

 outside row of Echeveria secunda 

 glauca, extending all around, contained 



