According to a report in the Daily News, orchids were becoming cheaper in France. What were worth 20 franca last year can be now be had for 5 francs. Cub orchids for table decorations, that cost 5 francs a flower last year, are being sold for 1 or 2 francs at the most. Orchids are greatly used to intermix with fruit on fruit dishes, and in specially-made baskets intended to figure at dessert. Orchids will also be employed in serpentine decoration?, laid simply on the tablecloth. The rose will hold its own in the drawing room, cut with long stalks, and in porcelain vases. The orchid is supplanting the gardenia as a button-hole flower.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9711, 5 January 1895, Page 5
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