A FLORAL COMPLIMENT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 10314, 5 April 1894, Page 3

A FLORAL COMPLIMENT.

At the annual ball in connection with the Yale of White Horse Hunt, which followed closely after the wedding of the noble master, the Earl Bathurst, and Miss Lilias Margaret Borfchwick, only daughter of Sir Algernon and Lady Borthwick, a very pretty compliment was paid to the Countess in the floral decorations, which were very novel and appropriate. It will only be necessary to describe the centre table of the aupper-room. Over the centre of this was suspended a large bell, which was covered with moss. In the mouth of the bell were placed lilies of the valley, and in the centra of the table stood a white horse in the act of jumping across a stream of water. The water was represented by a mirror, and the horse stood in the midst of white Marguerites. Then there was a space representing the ati’aam of water; next to this came a mound of Marguerites set in moss and maidenhair fern, with an outer band of lilies of the valley. These two flowers represented the Christian names of the Countess Bathurst. On either corner of the table was placed another bell, also covered with moss, and in the mouth of which was also placed more lilies of the valley. The whole was relieved by vases of lilies of the valley. Marguerites, arum lilies, sprays of ivy, &c., and formed (a visitor writes) one of the most effective and complete arrangements of its kind I ever saw. The other tables ware dressed with similar flowers, and looked very pretty indeed.