i 3 8 FLORAL DESIGNS. 
Wreath of mignonette (with spikes all laid one way), wheat and purple 
pansies. Casket cover of purple asters ; a cross of rich ferns. A wreath 
of asters and anratnm lilies. 
Sickle of graded Niphetos roses, made on single wire, using from five 
to eight dozen roses ; back it with rose leaves and fine ferns. A sickle of 
ivy leaves, laid on flat sheaf of wheat ; a loose, careless cluster of helio- 
trope or pansies laid at intersection of handle and blade; or, a sickle of all 
purple pansies. A sickle should only be used for old persons, as it em- 
blemizes old age. 
SPECIAL FUNERAL DESICxNS. 
For an engineer : locomotive four feet long ; boiler of white pinks and 
Niphetos roses ; cab of Perle roses and candytuft ; tender of lilies and 
roses, with smoke-stack of Perle buds. 
For vice president of railway : A locomotive, cab and boiler of 
white roses and carnations ; hand rails and pilot purple immortelles ; head- 
light, red carnations ; tender, white and yellow roses ; purple track, crim- 
son ties ; road-bed of ferns, twelve feet in length. For same : A private 
car entering tunnel ; car of white buds ; tunnel of fern leaves, dotted with 
marguerites. 
For a telegraph operator : two telegraph poles, with connecting line 
broken down, on field of ferns. 
For a bookkeeper : a desk, with a sponge cup made of immortelles and 
flowers, with an unfinished manuscript on the lid of the desk. An open 
ledger of white carnations, eucharis, freesias and lily of the valley, laying 
upon a desk of ferns ; a bookmark of satin ribbon contained the inscrip- 
tion, "Accounts Closed." A closed ledger with the word "ledger" 
on the cover, with pen laid on it, also can be used for the same purpose. 
The pen can be whittled out of a cycas leaf. 
For a journalist : Desk of ivy ; one corner, bunch of lily of the 
valley ; inkstand of violets; quill pen, formed of a palm leaf; a vase of 
flowers with the inscription, " Last Copy Finished." A full sized sheet of 
newspaper, resting on an easel. The columns were separated by column 
rules of single lines of black immortelles ; the columns were filled with 
sweet alyssum, which at a short distance resembled reading matter ; the 
plain surface at the top of the page was of white carnations, with the 
name of the paper in black pansies. The outside edge was of single white 
azaleas set very closely together. A graceful garland, or drapery, of La 
France roses and buds formed a decoration over the left hand corner, and 
fell in careless sprays down the sides and up over the easel. " 30 " was 
lettered at the bottom of the sheet, meaning in newspaper parlance, finis. 
The easel was covered with smilax and ferns. 
For musicians : A banjo of bronze pansies. A cornet of Perle 
roses, laid on bed of ferns. A guitar of alternanthera paronychoides 
major, laid on bed of white roses and carnations. A violin of white car- 
nations and roses, with strings of purple or white chenille, broken. A bar 
