The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade . urally adjusted. More elaboratemethods may, of course, be adopted,such as placing each individual flowerin Its proper place, but there is thenalways a tendency to get a somewhatformal and extremely orthodox ar-rangement. I have seen arrangementsthat suggest they have been turnedout of a mould, and they are then any-thing but pleasing. Numerous littlespecimen glasses, tubes and earthen-ware bowls are to be found in mosthomes, and these are well suited todispose one, two, or three blooms ef-fectively, but do not unduly shortenthe flower-ste
The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade . urally adjusted. More elaboratemethods may, of course, be adopted,such as placing each individual flowerin Its proper place, but there is thenalways a tendency to get a somewhatformal and extremely orthodox ar-rangement. I have seen arrangementsthat suggest they have been turnedout of a mould, and they are then any-thing but pleasing. Numerous littlespecimen glasses, tubes and earthen-ware bowls are to be found in mosthomes, and these are well suited todispose one, two, or three blooms ef-fectively, but do not unduly shortenthe flower-stems. In the case of theearly-flowering Dutch tulips, I usetheir own foliage, but in the case ofthe May-flowering species this is hardlyto be expected. Any hardy foliage,from the hedgerow or elsewhere isutilized, and when this is not availablerecourse has to be made to asparagus,ferns and foliage of a tender who cannot grow their ownflowers can get ample supplies frommost local florists. I have never seenso many flowers in the florists win-. ANNUAL EXHIBITION AMERICAN PEONY SOCIETY, ITHACA, N. Peony Field at Cornell University. Y., JUNE 19-20, 1912. jgi2. The American Florist. 1345
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