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Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_24_2 (find matches)
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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The Weekly Florists' Review. SEI'TKMIIKU 10, I'JOt). would hare been / to have suggested a four-leaved clover,\an old shoe nlled for good luck, or the omce waste basket load- ed full of long-stemmed flowers, or an open ledger with a clear page and an inscription added! Better still, why not have sent a handsome vase, not forgetting to talk up the always reliable basket of flowers or plants, or the two combined? The excuse is often given by a sales- man for allowing his trade to run in ruts and making the same old things in the same old way year after year, that cus- tomers do not appreciate anything better. Of course they do not. appreciate better things when they never see them or "hear tell" of them. A tailor or milliner never hesitates to tell a prospective buyer what he ought to have and insist upon it, too. Illustrators, picture makers and all crafts keep ahead of the pultlic and put up their products with the authority of leaders. But some florists assume that they are too modest to urge the use of the new and best things, until the mod- esty assumes a'tinge of what is called, in plain English, laziness. Baskets of Flowers or Plants. But to return to the basket. The gay- est and freest will be none too much for these occasions. By gaiety is not meant giddiness or disregard for color and taste, but let good coloring run riot and employ loose and playful combinations of foliage, flowers and ribbon. Tin lined baskets are fine for flowers, as well as plants. Fill with spagnum and stem as needed. When complete and placed, fill with water and the flowers will keep in excellent condition. Tastefully arranged plant baskets are very acceptable for openings. Plant in the basket pan ^nd fill vacancies with soil or sphagnum. Then water well. Both blooming and foliage plants can be used together. Be finicky about choosing colors. When circumstances permit, cyclamens, with white or heliotrope pink mums and Boston ferns, are happily combined, while another desirable selection might be com- posed of TChite primroses with Asparagus plumosus and Enchantress carnations. Another:. Pink or lavender primroses in the body of the basket and a cluster.pf white carnations sprayed over the han- dle. Wrap the handle first with soft ribbon in green or lavender, with a ro- sette at one side. If pansy plants are obtainable, fill the basket with the pur- ples and yellows and decorate the handle with yellow mums. Cover the soil with sheet moss or lycopodium. One way to work off a surplus of jardinieres or^vases is to sell the vase or jardiniere and contents for store open- ings or for hospital patients. Don't chiffon everything. Ribbon a goodly proportion and leave some pieces unadorned as regards any kind of fabrics. Sometimes, for openings, fill a birch bark box, like a window box, with tall foliage plants for the center, and bright blooming plants interspersed •with de- pending vines. Use flowers with some and add autumn leaves, cones or such local products. Coleus plaijts are often of good size at this time of the year, and a few surplus stock plants can be worked in appropriately. Select the brilliant reds and shade with variegated reds and greens, and finally into the clear greens. Finish with a cluster of delicate pink flowers, like Enchantress carnations or Bridesmaid roses. Gertrude Blair. ALWAYS STATE HOW TO SHEP. There is nothing more annoying to a shipper of perishable stock, especially of so bulky a nature as plants, than to re- ceive an order like this, Ship at once, or "Ship without delay," "Ship me," or "Rush the following order," without instructions as to which way to ship, by freight or express. An additiop of one more word, "Freight" or "Express," would re- lieve the shipper of all doubt and re- move the necessity of a lot of corre- spondence, in which usually the pur- chaser mentions a dozen times how the stock should have been shipped, if the shipment went wrong. Sometimes, when a purchaser sends In an order which may run of considerable weight, it looks as if the shipping in- structions were purposely omitted, to throw the entire responsibility of judg- ment upon the shipper, and if he routes it by. freight and the shipment does not reacl^ its destination quickly enough^^en there is an awful howl about its being shipped by freight. On the other hand, if the stock is expressed and the charges are beyond expectations, as they usutdly are, back comes the same kick about sending such heavy shipments by ex- press. In nine cases out of ten, the pur- chaser will try to fall bagk on the shipper and blame him for lack of judgment or loss sustained, when the purchaser is en- tirely at fault. • These matters usually start unpleasant relatiotis between buyer and seller, which could be avoided by a proper understand- ing when an order is sent in. Always state how you want your order shipped. C. C. POLLWOBTH Co. WILSON SAILS FOR AMERICA. E. H. Wilson, famous collector of new Chinese and Thibetan plants, sails from Liverpool today to spend a considerable time at Harvard University and Arnold Arboretum, with Prof. C. S. Sargent, ar- ranging, identifying and naming the. large number of specimens collected by Mr. Wilson on the more than two years' trip to western China from which he re- turned to England- in May. Mr. WilgOn was in Kew from 1897 to 1899. In February of the latter year he was engaged by James Veitch & Sons, of Chelsea, to visit southern and central China for the purpose of collecting new and rare plants. For the greater part of three years Mr., Wilson labored in this enormous district, and in the earlier part of that period he obtained considerable help from Dr. Augustine Henry, himself a keen botanist and collector. The chief results of this mission were the finding of Jasminum primulinum, Davidia in- volucrata. Hex Pernyi, Astilbe Davidi and A. grandis, Buddleia variabilis Veitchii, and B. variabilis magnifica, Coiydalis thalictrifolia, Lonicera Maacki, Senecio clivorum, Populus lasiocarpa, Viburnum rhytidophyllum, and numerous vitis and rubi. So successful was Mr. Wilson that he undertook a second jour- ney for the Messrs. Veitch, during 1903 and 1904, to western China and the Thibetan border, returning in March, 1905. During this trip he found Me- conopsis integrifolia, M. punicea. Prim
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