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What constitutes a Florist's Flower ? 



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the casting. The advantage of these 

 wires is, that they will bend any way 

 to suit the line of the branches and 

 flowers, b moves like the tube of a 

 telescope out of a, and may be set to 

 any height by means of a thumb- 

 screw shown at e. This tube is 

 made of half-inch gas-piping, for the 

 purpose of receiving the top (c), also 

 of cast iron ; and the wires shown in 

 it are secured into it in the same 

 manner as into the ends (c c). There 

 is a piece of strong wire in the under 

 side, for fitting into the end of the 

 pipe, as shown at g by the dotted 

 lines, so that the top is easily taken 

 off and put on. To this top a num- 

 ber of flowers may be tied, and pre- 

 vented from rubbing against each 

 other. The moving branch (d) upon 

 the tube b is secured by a screw, 

 as shown aty*; by this means the 

 branches of the stake will turn round 

 up to the side of the branches of the 

 plant, which will be just the reverse 

 to the branches c c. Any number 

 of these moving branches may be put 

 upon the tube b, as may be required 

 by the height of the plant. The 

 wires in this branch are secured into 

 it in the same manner as in the other 

 branch. The end of this protector, 

 at a, is put into the ground to a suffi- 

 cient depth to make it secure. 



A protector might be made with a 

 wooden upright axis, with cast-iron 

 branches to put on it, which would move, and might be secured 

 by screws in the same manner as in the iron stake. 



Fort Green Cottage^ Garstang, July 31. 1842. 



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Fig. 40. Improved Dahlia 

 Stake. 



Art. VII. What constitutes a Florist's Flower ? By W. A. M. 



Florist's Flowers differ from wild flowers and border flowers 

 in being so entirely changed by culture as no longer to resemble 

 their original type. All plants are not capable of being so 



