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Show i . COUNTERFEIT FLOWERS. The orchid and American beauty ' rose are the twomost difficult flowers to make. A skilled worker can construct only about six American Beauty roses in one day, and this number only when the leaves and petals are all ready to put together, The small flowers like the Jessamine Jes-samine are also difficult to make, and only skilled hands can be intrusted with this work. The majority of the small and delicately-made flowers imported for millinery usee are made In the prisons of France. The work of making flowers Is pleasant and, for skilled hands, lucrative, lucra-tive, the girls receiving all the way from $3 a week for beginners to $25 for the beat workers. Much of the finer grades is given out for home work, women and girls taking huge boxes of flower petals and leaves to put together. One market for artificial flowers is that of the harness-makers, who order bunches of violets vio-lets and other small flowers and resell them to grooms for the decoration of their hordes on tally-ho trips and othor gala occasions. Many of the handsome corsage bouquets of orchids ,aiid violets so much admired at the theater and opera are artificial. Leslie's Weekly. |