The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-18
FLOWERS FOR HOME USE
HOUSE AND TABLE DECORATION
IDEAS AT FLOWER SHOW.
Schemes in Chrysanthe mums,
Roses and Carnations.

The Indiana Floral Festival Association
will offer i'm its exhibition in Tomlinson
Hall, the week of Nov. 10, many evidences
that ideas and fashions in flowers are
shifting. some of them moving about as
restlessly as the styles in women's hats.
The change along these lines come mostly
in the use OF flowers in table and home
decorations. One day of the show will be
set apart when the Festival Association
will present ideas of what the expert table
decorators working out in this direction.
In former Indianapolis shows the table
decorations have been chief features-fea-
lures that were especially attractive to the
wonderland it is proposed to work out this
part Of the coming exhibit along fresh
lines and on broader scale.
Tables will be set in the hall that offer
capacities from ten to sixteen people. The
tables will have their equipment of linen,
china, silverware and light; will be orna-
nented with blooms and vines and will be,
in fact, all ready for the serving of an
elaborate dinner. 1t is in the arrangement
of flowers and vines that the expert decor
ators will show their greatest skill. The
choicest blooms that can be obtained from
the larger houses will enter into these
decorative schemes. The choice of the
flowers will be left to the decorators and
they will have free hands in carrying out
their work.
DISPLAY OF ROSES.
Some tables will show what can be done
with roses and the scheme on other tables
will show the best uses that can be made
of chrysanthemums. On other tables the
carnation will be the reigning flower. The
tables will be set for wedding parties. large
dinners. for formal and informal affairs.
and the decorations for each table will be
of the kind that cost hostess at a dinner
party from 500 to $125.
While these decorative schemes will go to
extremes in showing wealth in the use of
blossoms, the promoters Of the show say
that they will offer hundred suggestions
to women who are seeking more modest
ideas that may be used in their homes.
Floral decorations for a dinner party, the
florists assert, can be provided on preten-
tious scale for much less than s125 table.
The price, in fact, can be lowered 10 about
any point within reach of the giver of the
dinner. 1T is not much the quantity of
flowers used, the florists say, but the way
they used, that gives emphasis to a
dinner table.
Table decorations year by year CIV
ing the women more concern than any other
use of flowers, the greenhouse men say
1t has reached a point where the floral
decorations are as important as the menu
| that is served. If a hostess cannot spend
800, $50 or SO for her dinner flowers, she
will invest what she can and ask the aid
of the florists in working out ideas. 1t is
this ever-growing use of blooms on din
ner tables that keeps the expert decorators
| busy in developing new ideas. They say
| that as the seasons go by it becomes more
and more evident that the decorative
schemes are in endless variety and that the
use of one develops another.
DECORATED BASKETS.
Decorated baskets will also get much at
| tention in the November show. They are to
| be presented on the day that the table
| decorations are shown. Carnations, chrys-
anthemums and roses will be used in decor
ating large baskets of fancy weave. all
of the imported kind. and with the blooms,
vines and ferns will be woven. The bas-
kets will be of the kind that swing in
homes and churches when pretentious we'd