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A bicycle of white roses, with scat of pink carnations. A suspended 
balloon, with car attached. A locomotive headlight. A capstone and 
anchor. A lamp-post and letter-box. 
floral oddities. 
These may be useful, and when properly handled are generally very 
effective. 
A surprise bouquet is made of Perle roses, enclosed in cabbage leaves, 
to represent a huge cabbage. 
A bouquet of American Beauty roses, with stems three feet long. 
A column of blue hydrangeas, draped in greens, tied with watered 
green ribbon, and filled with sunflowers ; it should be standing on a soap 
box, inscribed " B. T. Babbitt's Best." 
Spider and fly on a web ; web of wdiite Florida moss was stretched 
across poles ten feet in height. The body of his spidership was of Perle 
roses, striped with black pansies, heliotropes and maiden-hair ferns. The 
head was of L,a France roses, and the legs were of tuberoses strung on 
wires. The fly was composed of mixed flowers, and had wings of gauze. 
A young lad}- who graduated from a dental college was presented by 
admiring friends with a floral tooth. A local correspondent in the Amer- 
ican Florist says : "It was formed of white Cape flowers, and a lot of 
3'ellow T immortelles did duty as gold filling. The tooth was a foot high, 
and created lots of merriment." 
EASTER DECORATIONS. 
To make an artistic success of these, symbolism of color should be 
studied. Red represents divine love; white, purity, faith and regeneration; 
blue, truth, constancy, holiness and fidelity. Purple and violet were 
the colors dedicated to royalty ; green symbolizes hope of immortality 
and victory. The laws that govern harmony of color should always 
be kept in mind, whatever is done. 
A fine Easter cross stood about eight feet high, and rose from a double 
square base. The cross was formed of calla lilies, lily of the valley and 
Roman hyacinths. The upper squaie of the base was of wdiite carnations, 
and was 2}^ feet square. (Cape flowers or immortelles could be used in- 
stead of carnations.) On each corner of the upper base a white dove was 
perched. A garland of bine forget-me-nots were held up by these four 
doves, while a profusion of Marechal Niel roses were grouped on one cor- 
ner and had overflowed onto the green sub-base. This was formed of 
green moss, lycopodium and ferns. ' ' He is Risen ' ' was lettered in scarlet 
immortelles on the white groundwork of the upper base on the front panel. 
A cross of wdiite flowers, with a green base and a large cluster of 
scarlet cacti at the intersection of the arms, is rich and effective. Liliums 
Harrisii and candidum, and the calla lily, are the things par excellence for 
w^ork at this time of the vear. 
