ARRANGING FLOWERS.
In the modern way, cut or growing flowers for room and table decoration aro massed together in every variety like a country nosegay. Lupins, marigolds, sweet "williams, stocks, antirrhinums, for-get-me-nots, and roses are arranged in great clusters with the orderly confusion of a thickly-planted herbaceous border. Golden baskets, into which planted pots of flowers, or bowls of cut ones, are put, arc tho popular and decorative note of tho moment, an English writer advises. A layer of long, green moss is laid over the top of the basket, from which the flower stalks emerge in a natural manner.
A candle-glass fitted into a wide-mouthed vase keeps tall-stcrnmcd (lowers from spreading too untidily. Short stalks are made to appear much longer if a ball of tissue paper is put into tho bottom of a vase and the flowers stood on this.
Use plenty of foliage. tlint belonging In the plants from which the flowers ;irc cut, if possible. It makes the best background and helps to support the stems.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20306, 13 July 1929, Page 6 (Supplement)
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170ARRANGING FLOWERS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20306, 13 July 1929, Page 6 (Supplement)
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