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THE FLORAL WORLD 



The Floral World 



Published Monthly at Stkingfikld, Ohio : 5'- 



Subscription Price, 25 Cents a Year 



Correspondence invited froju all persons interested 

 in flowers. Wiite us your experiences with plants. 



OUR EDITORIAL PLAN 



We propose to make The Floral 

 World practical in every sense of 

 the word. It will contain only matter 

 about the culture of flowers. Every 

 article will be for the amateur. 



You can help us — and help our read- 

 ers — by giving us your experience in 

 growing flowers. Write us, therefore, 

 about t^e plants with which you have 

 succeeded and the methods you follow. 



Each month we will award $50.00 

 in cash prizes for the best contribu- 

 tions that reach us. The first .prize 

 will be $25.00; second, $15.00; third, 

 ^10.00; fourth, $3.00, and fifth, $2.00. 



Our subscribers will award the 

 prizes. Each one can vote — blank 

 coupons or ballots will appear in every 

 issue. The amounts offered will be 

 paid to the persons whose articles 

 receive the greatest number of votes. 



We now request articles for publica- 

 tion in January. These must not ex- 

 ceed three hundred words in length, 

 and must be in our hands by Decem- 

 ber 10. Ballot for vote on January 

 articles will appear in that issue, the 

 awards to be made public in March 

 number. 



The editorial plan of The Floral 

 World is absolutely new and unique, 

 you will see, and we hope that it 

 meets your approval. Our aim is to 

 make a floral paper for the people, 

 and your help is needed. Let us have 

 it both in the form of subscriptions 

 and of contributions that give your 

 experience in floriculture. 



A FLORAL BALL 



We want to encourage interest in 

 flowers. Their influence for good is 

 great, and no one can know too much 



about them. Here is a clever set of 

 questions about a floral ball — every 

 question answered by the name of a 

 plant or flower. For a correct set of 

 answers to these questions from a sub- 

 scriber for The Floral World we 

 will give a prize of $10.00. For the 

 nearest correct answer a prize of '$5.00 

 will be awarded. For the next two 

 nearest correct answers prizes of $3.00 

 and $2.00 will be given. 



To be entitled to tne first prize a 

 list of answers must exactly corre- 

 spond with the one we have prepared 

 and have on file in the safe of the pub- 

 lishers of The Floral World, where 

 no competitor in this contest can have 

 access to it. In our solution of the 

 puzzle each question is answered by 

 the name of a plant or flower given on 

 pages 840, 841, 842, 843 of Wood's 

 Class Book of Botany. The questions 

 in "The Floral Ball" are as follows: 



1. In popular language what was the 

 ball called? 



2. What name was applied to the 

 bashful ones sitting around the room? 



3. What did a bad boy throw through 

 the window? 



4. What old-fashioned article of 

 dress worn by the host was struck by 

 the missile? 



5. What did he threaten to do to the 

 young rascal if he could catch him? 



6. What were the given names of his 

 three charming daughters who were 

 laughing at him behind his back? 



7. By what pet name did they call 

 him when about to ask a favor of him? 



8. With what salutation did he bid 

 good-night to his parting guests? 



This contest will close on December 

 1, by which date all solutions of the 

 puzzle must be in our hands. The 

 prize winners will be announced in the 

 January Floral World. Bear in 

 mind that any subscriber may compete 

 for the prizes offered — and no other 

 persons. Read the terms as given 

 above with care, and mail your an- 

 swers to the questions so they will 

 reach us on or before December 1. 



