Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07
COOKE IS IN CHARGE DUTCH MILL IN BLOOM
So Florists Show Is Bound GUIDE Exhibit at Flower Show
Be Success. to Be Wonder.
KNOWS DECORATIVE ART RARE FLOWERS SELECTED
Charge Iauga Odd and Beautiful Effects to- Please
for Many Years the Visitor
HIS WORK IS GREATLY ARIST0CRATS GARDEN
in at
Connecticut Avenue Has Their and Fragrance
in
So Florists Show Is Bound to
Be a Success.
KNOWS DECORATIVE ART
Has Been in Charge of Inaugurals
for Many Years.
HIS WORK IS GREATLY PRAISED
Now in Business for Himself at 100
Connecticut Avenue, and Has
Discriminating Patronage.

Those who have marveled at the taste
and beauty of the previous exhibitions of
the Washington florists may be glad to
know that much of the success i'm the
past has been due to George III. Cooke.
whose shop at 100 Connecticut avenue
has been a beauty spot on that thorough
fare for the six years of its existence.
Mr.. Cooke is again superintendent of the
show, and is busily arranging the booths
and exhibits around the hall so that each
one will be seen to the greatest advan-
sage.
In addition he is planning one of the
best exhibits of his own flowers that he
las ever shown. Year by year the flower
show has increased in extent and beauty,
the florists and the general public have
taken more interest at each successive
week of exhibition. and George Cookies
flowers have kept pace with the leaders
Those who marveled at his elegant dis
play last year. and at the entire effect of
the show arranged by him. can look
forward to q still more elaborate display
this season. both i'm the general exhibit
and in his own individual display.
Believes in the Best.
Mr.. Cooke is another florist who goes
In for the best the gardens and green
plays no favorites. and is therefore free
to range over the entire floral field. find
the latest. the best. the most popular and
display il to the best advantage. When
chrysanthemums have the field Connecti-
cut avenue is filled with the biggest and
fiuffiest NUNS this section of the coun-
try produces, and among those which
everybody looks at twice are George
Cookies. So with roses and violets and
orchids.
Further than this, Mr.. Cooke has the
art of decorating at the ends of his very
facile and ingenious fingers. He knows
much about decorating as OrVille
Wright knows about flying. Perhaps
every one does not know it, but the
most famous decorations in the entire
United States for the last score of years
have been the result of George Cookies
efforts-the decorations at the inaugural
balls. He has done the work under an
other firm, but still, the work is a good
part his, and those who will see the
flower show this year will not wonder
at the choice which those in charge OF
the inaugurals have made.
Some Brand-New Effects.
So skillful decorator will. therefore,
be looked up to as leader in even
simple matters. like the planning of the
flowers for dinner table or lunch
table. Mr.. Cooke promises that he will
take each day the very rneSt mowers tndt
can be obtained for the purpose and
make OF them table decorations that will
he marvels OF simplicity, beauty and
effectiveness. Also there will be more
complex decorations. rare plants. odd col
ors and bold and daring and absolutely
new effects.
Furthermore, he will have in his ex-
hibits a mantel eactly the size and gen.
eral shape as the mantels of dwelling
house. and every day the flower world
will give up to George Cooke the best
il has. and his hands will show Wash
iugton something about the seemingly
simple matter of putting flowers on a
mantelpiece that will make housekeepers
and others open their eyes.
Specimen Flowers on View.
He will have an exhibition of specimen
flowers of the finest grades. prize win
ners. rare slips and cuttings. and they
will be kept fresh and sweet every hour
of the day.