CHOICE OF A VASE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 244, 15 October 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)

CHOICE OF A VASE

GOOD SHAPES FOR FLOWERS While vases should have the common feature of plenty of room for stalks and water, and while anything should be anathema if it has too narrow an entrance, yet the different flowers require accommodation which is everything that is varied. The wide jampot vases, for instance, which are ideal for bushy foliage, especially if they slope slightly outwards, are uncomfortable for numbers of the spring flowers which have straight stalks and straight, long foliage as well. Even a perfectly straight vase is not good for daffodils and narcissi, since it seems to regiment them too much. Far better is an ample glass which at the top slopes inward very slightly. This allows plenty of water below, and yet grips the flowers where they need it, and is better than the uncomfortable lead arrangements which pretend that the flowers arc growing when they are doing nothing of the kind. Bowls with straight, upstanding sides, not round ones, are good for primroses, while tumbler-shaped vases are best for forget-me-nots or anemones. For heavy flowers, such as rhododendrons, there is nothing like the pail-shaped vase which holds sufficient water to provide balance for the flowers.