Flower grower's guide . difficult to give instructions regarding the arrangements most desirable. Thesemust be left to individual taste, but in all there should be an absence of formality, andan effort to show to the best advantage, consistent with the design, the character of theflower. This is especially necessary with some of the taller and more effective kinds,such as the echinops or Bocconia cordata, which lose their beauty when cut with shortstems and crowded together in bunches. Various contrivances have been devised for preventing the overcrowding offlowers and foliage, also for produc
Flower grower's guide . difficult to give instructions regarding the arrangements most desirable. Thesemust be left to individual taste, but in all there should be an absence of formality, andan effort to show to the best advantage, consistent with the design, the character of theflower. This is especially necessary with some of the taller and more effective kinds,such as the echinops or Bocconia cordata, which lose their beauty when cut with shortstems and crowded together in bunches. Various contrivances have been devised for preventing the overcrowding offlowers and foliage, also for producing a good effect with a limited number (seeFig. 131). Smiths dome-shaped holders are good for the purpose, placed in plates, asshown in Fig. 132. Among other flowers, it may be said, by way of suggestion, that a few single ARRANGING CUT FLOWERS. 273 pyrethrums loosely arranged in small glasses, with a little of their own foliage and abud or two, are exceedingly graceful, and look infinitely better than a large bunch of. Fig. 131. Arranging Flowers and Foliage. the same flowers massed together and unrelieved by foliage. Those who have triedthe art of floral decoration as practised in Japan, where a branch of a flowering shrubor tree is employed with an effect much superior to more elaborate designs, will be
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