HOLLY AND HOLLY WREATHS 



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Lay the branches 

 all one way, face up, 

 tie them with heavy 

 twine and put them 

 back in the case to 

 be returned to the 

 storage place. All 

 made-up wreaths 

 should also go back 

 if possible, but in 

 the absence of a 

 better place they 

 can go underneath 

 some bench in a cool 

 house where they 

 should be covered 

 with paper. 



Twelve-inch 

 wire rings are the 

 right size for ordin- 

 ary wreaths and No. 

 3 wire is used for 

 making them. If 

 your patrons are not 

 used to paying more 

 than twenty-five or 

 thirty cents for a 

 wreath, educate 

 them to ask for 

 better ones by show- 

 ing them the difference. It doesn't take much more material to 

 make a dollar wreath than it does to make one for fifty cents, and 

 it is your business to push the better sort. 



Fig. 56. — A Real Holly Wreath. Many people will 

 prefer one good Holly wreath to a dozen poor ones and 

 it is good policy for the florist to have on display a week 

 or ten days before Christmas a few samples of "real" 

 Holly wreaths to take orders from 



Boxwood's Increasing Importance 



Next in importance to Holly comes Boxwood, which from year 

 to year is being used more extensively around Christmas and, in 

 fact, all Winter long. If you have to buy it by the pound and pay 

 a good price for it, you cannot afford to waste it. Let it he around 

 in a dry place for a few days and it will be ruined, but if you take 

 proper care of it, stock which you receive about the first of December 

 can be kept in perfect condition until April. As you receive it, 

 take it out of the burlap bags, gather as much as you can in one 

 hand with the stems all even below, and heel it close together in 

 a coldframe; get the stems five or six inches down into the soil if 

 possible, give a good watering and cover the frame either with glass 



