FLOWER DECORATION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16905, 2 December 1922, Page 9

FLOWER DECORATION.

- 4 Although the flat bowls for flowers ; continue to be colled “ floating j flower bowls, the blossoms in them are j often placed in other ways than rest- | iiig on the top of tlie water. Very novel and interesting is a mani ner of arranging single flowers sucfi j as narcissi and other blooms around ! the edge of the bowl. At sight i you wonder how they remain in posi- | tiou, but on examination you find that j they are kept in place with modelling . clay. Branches of flowering currant. | prunes, japonica, and other flowering shrubs and spravs of Oolomon’s seal secured at either side of the bowl <n a similar way to that they bend omit. look very light and charming. i A BEAUTIFUL RESULT. One great advantage of this way of arranging flowers is that it only requires quite a few, to got a beautiful result, as. for instance, a couple of red Richmond roses poised at the edge of a medium-sized basin bowl in orange vermilion pottery give a. far better effect than if placed in a small vase. The flowers should always be | fixed to the side of the howl w-ith the J clay before any water is put in it. I otherwise the day will not adhere and I disappointment will follow. > An excellent notion is the* way in | which the china department at a large S store will give a display of novel : methods of arranging flowers. One : has achieved a fascinating English ' version of the Japanese landscape table ! decoration by using clay. Little twigs I of hawthorn showing green buds just | opening are attached to a howl and on J them are perched diminutive replicas ' of wild birds, white-throats, blue tit-, i bullfinches, and kingfishers, the work • of a woman artist. Sometimes a twig ; L carried right across from one side j of the howl to the other to form an

. arch, with the wee birds seated on the : top o.f it in amicable ouj versation. Occasionally dragon flies j are used'instead of birds. ; CHARMING STANDS : The stand on which the howl i=» i placed plays an important part in mo-it j of these new flower schemes. F v or j instance, a basin howl containing a ! couple of roses; requires raising on a | stand six or eight inches liieh to get ! the best effect. Most of the stands i are of oriental origin, hut- some charm j incr new dvnips of -atin wood and stained black are now made | in England.