A ROYAL YEAR
FLOWERS IN 1937
GOLD AND MAUVE POPULAR
This has been a royal year for flowers, says an English correspondent. Decorations from Coronation time onwards have been the means of culling millions of choice blooms from conservatories far and wide.
Thousands of scarlet and white carnations were used to make a massed bower for the Royal box at the Ecv?l Command Variety Performance, and the Royal entertainments for the State visit of the King of the Belgians have occasioned many lavish flower displays.
Golden roses were used at Buckingham Palace, and at the Belgian Legation, which the King ana* Queen attended; the following evening, the table in the banqueting room was massed with orchids. These had been grown in Belgium, and came by air from Brussels a few hours before the banquet. Mr. Harry Green, the wellknown floral decoration expert, arranged them.
"The orchids numbered hundreds," he told an interviewer, "all diffexnt kinds, some of them very rare specimens. They were mainly in mauve and golden colourings, and comprised many very valuable blooms. They were grown in Bruges at a nursery which King Leopold himself has visited. Arranged in great silver bowls, they looked very beautiful on the tables."
Flower schemes this winter for Mayfair parties show a fashion for paie mauve and gold blossoms.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 36, 12 February 1938, Page 19
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217A ROYAL YEAR Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 36, 12 February 1938, Page 19
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