Sweet peas and how to grow them . me varieties show a tendency to produce blos-soms dispersed on the stem in this way, it is often due to rich feedingat the root, which has the effect of elongating the stem to an extentthat is to be deprecated. Now, in the arrangement of Sweet Peas in ?1 i p m ? HP^ ?• H, 1 3 « 7~=\«r^ it> ^ Wk x ?V ^^nl ^IklMk wk THE TOPS OF SWEET PEA PLANTS—PLOWERS ANDFOLIAGE ON THE SAjrE STEM. a vase, this kind of flower is apt to produce a disappointing is true that it is not to be despised in setting up a vase of bloomsat an exhibition, but for filling the va
Sweet peas and how to grow them . me varieties show a tendency to produce blos-soms dispersed on the stem in this way, it is often due to rich feedingat the root, which has the effect of elongating the stem to an extentthat is to be deprecated. Now, in the arrangement of Sweet Peas in ?1 i p m ? HP^ ?• H, 1 3 « 7~=\«r^ it> ^ Wk x ?V ^^nl ^IklMk wk THE TOPS OF SWEET PEA PLANTS—PLOWERS ANDFOLIAGE ON THE SAjrE STEM. a vase, this kind of flower is apt to produce a disappointing is true that it is not to be despised in setting up a vase of bloomsat an exhibition, but for filling the vase for the table or hail I muchprefer the more natural arrangement. The Arrangement.—The art of setting up Sweet Peas,or in fact any kind of flower, lies in disposing them lightly. Tocrowd blooms in a vase is quite to spoil their natural grace andbeauty. Some of the most successful vases of Carnations I haveseen were arranged by the decorator first bunching the flowers. AN EPEBGNB OF SWEET PEAS. 40 SWEET PEAS loosely in the hand, blooms downwards, then turning them upquickly and placing them in the vase. A slight readjustment of someblooms was all that was found necessary. I do not go so far as tosay that this is the best way of setting up Sweet Peas, or evenCarnations, in a vase, but I mention it just to show that the simplerthe arrangement the more likely is it to be satisfactory. The artof arranging flowers naturally is one that comes only after muchpractice, and there is not much that one can teach by writing on thesubject, beyond the fact that above all things the flowers must not becrowded in the vase, and that the more rearrangement there is the lesslikely is the result to be pleasing. In this matter, at all events,it is the first work that is invariably the best. Directly you beginto take out a stem here and put it in there you make the arrange-ment worse than it was, unless you are quite expert. The art ofsetting up flowers has been much sim
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