BEAUTY OF ROSES

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 301, 28 December 1935, Page 2

BEAUTY OF ROSES

From November onwards the rose is the most beautiful flower for table decoration. If perfect blooms are available, each rose, with its own foliage, should have a vase to itself. White or green vases are best. A pretty way of arranging specimen roses is to have a row of five vases down the middle of the table. Place a deep crimson rose in the centre, a red one al each side of it, and a pink one at the two ends of the row. Another arrangement in which single roses show to good effect is to place six vases in a circle in the centre of the table. Alternate yellow and pink or red, and white roses, with silver cord or ribbon draped from vase to vase, give a

I charming appearance. , Roses in bowls are delightful, but (to be arranged successfully they ‘ need some such support as a perforated glass bulb. Pale green china bowls filled with pink roses look well. Rambler roses have such an abundance of foliage, and bloom so ; freely that we can afford to use them lavishly. For a novel dinner-table decoration take a basket, such as one sees decorated at flower shows, and give it a coat of aluminium paint. Fill it with the old favourite, Dorothy Perkins, twining some sprays round the handle. Place it in the centre of the table, and then lay sprays of the rose from the base of the basket tb the corners of the table. Use rose-scented water for the finger-bowls, and let a perfect tiny rose float in each bowl.