The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-07

each side with tuberoses and carnations,
was very effective piece, and was admired.
A harp was prettily gotten up. This was
made with white flowers for the standard
or pillow, and pink, white and red flow
ers in lines for the sounding board. The
base was fern leaves and mixed flowers.
A huge pyramid was shown by this COM
pany formed OF dahlias in all the colors of
the rainbow except the pretty ones Dah-
lias are essentially coarse flowers and mad
missible in anything but coarse effects. We
could only look at this huge pyramid of
flowers, each really beautiful viewed singly,
and think of rag carpet which they seem
to belong with in their relations to other
floral work shown by this company. A
crescent of white tuberoses enclosing a
bright red star was beautiful. A stand like
q table was really pretty though a
few light dahlias were smuggled in
among the roses and other company.
A pagoda was another effective piece, in
straw work. The base was large lozenge-
shaped piece, in white flowers sprinkled
with pink, and in the center with carmine
carnations. At the corners, or pillars, were
gathered clusters of rosebuds in self colors,
with smilax and pretty bouquet at the
apex. 1t was pretty device, and so were
numbers of others that we can not attempt
to describe. There was small Tyre, so very
pretty, however, that We had to make q
note of it. This was formed of white
flowers, with a few sweet violets and
Sprunt buds, and though small, was very
neat and pretty. The work was uniformly
good shown by this Company to-
day, and did them much credit.
Mr.. Critchell had vast number of pieces
in his collection, but not so many as shown
by the Floral Company and generally not
up to the standard of his usual work. al
though he had some very creditable pieces.
His large eight-foot Tyre was again pre-
sented, but filled with flowers rather snowy
than fine. This piece did not please us so
well as on a former occasion, the use of too
many yellow dahlias detracting from the
effect of the other flowers. A pyramid
some five feet or more in height was snowy,
although dahlias were used in this. but
in connection with gladiolus spikes,
that made the piece a very pretty
and snowy ornament to the tables. Crtchell
showed some baskets of the exquisite sea
moss that were much admired and must
find great use hereafter in decorations. A
white anchor, two feet or more long, was
handsome, with beautiful La Margue roses
and tuberoses set in alto relieve. A stand
having bowl-shaped top, supported by a
standard of oats and grasses was very ell
egant. The under portion of the bowl was
white and pale flesh-colored balsams with
an edge of rich deep blue flowers in solid
band, the only way that this exquisite
blue is really admirable in floral work.
Blue, like yellow, is inharmonious
and unyielding with other colors and
should be be kept next to white, and gen.
orally in solid masses. We have to criticise
Mr.. Critchel1s free use of yellow Gamma
horets in his work yesterday. Yellow
flowers like dahlias are essentially canaille.
A broken column shown by Crtchell of
pink dahlias and few smilax leaves con-
trasted favorably with his competitor who
held similar device.
Mr.. Critchell's happiest conceit and by all
odds his masterpiece was that fine poker
hand which he exhibited. This consisted
of hand formed of pink balsams holding
five aces. These five aces were spread out
to show two aces of diamonds, one ofhearts
and one each of clubs and spades. The
three former were scarlet geraniums on
white ground, and the two latter purple
ageratum. The cards spread out like fan
were surrounded by band of red geranium
horets. The sleeve OF the coat
below the hand holding the
cards was purple ageratum. If
Bill Nye has not been in town, it is quite
certain that his soul is marching on, or else
possibly, and we make the suggestion with
diffidence, for ways that are dark and
tricks that are vain your heather Clncin-
natl florist, when he comes to make a
grand exhibit at the Exposition, is pecu-
liar. This piece was one of the most deci-
dedly original and happy of the season.
Mr.. Critchell also shows white pillow
edged with straw and grasses that was neat
and pretty. A horse shoe of light
mainly white flowers had two
dahias of dark velvety maroon. at the toe
and heel-corks of purple ageratum, and was
charmingly effective. We can notgo through
in detail with many more but are tempted
to dwell moment upon white cross with
pansies that seems to always please in COM
bination. A wreath was extremely neat
with few carmine carnations in bold re-
lief A japanese vase, filled with rich,
warm-tinted flowers in geometric figures
was greatly admired, and deservedly so
though shown before, as Were
a majority of the pieces of to-
day, by both the competing florists
John Killien and James White, policemen
in Floral Hall, nabbed couple of light
fingered gentlemen and walked them down
to headquarters about o'clock. This is
the second time Mr.. Killien has distin-
guished himself with securing game of this
sort.
Next Thursdays floral display will wind
up the show of flowers for the season and it
is intended it shall be done with an eclat
suited to the reputation our florists have
achieved in this line
CHESTFp plpK