Practical floriculture; a guide to the successful cultivation of florists' plants, for the amateur and professional florist . ethod of conveying our idea of thebest outline. The basket shown here is also one ofthe best, but whether high or low, the open round oroval basket is very efiective. Handled baskets we deemout of place as parlor ornaments, having doubtless beenoriginally designed to carry ; the handle invariably inter-feres with the general effect, and can only be tolerated 184 PRACTICAL FLORICULTUKE. when beautifully trimmed with flowers and fine parlor decoration, high sta
Practical floriculture; a guide to the successful cultivation of florists' plants, for the amateur and professional florist . ethod of conveying our idea of thebest outline. The basket shown here is also one ofthe best, but whether high or low, the open round oroval basket is very efiective. Handled baskets we deemout of place as parlor ornaments, having doubtless beenoriginally designed to carry ; the handle invariably inter-feres with the general effect, and can only be tolerated 184 PRACTICAL FLORICULTUKE. when beautifully trimmed with flowers and fine parlor decoration, high stands, with or withoutbranches, small, pendent baskets, or hanging baskets offloweiS, or of plants with rich flower sprays hung aroundthem, are frequently used to advantage. Balls of flowers,like hanging baskets, are best displayed from the centreof an arch or folding doors, and Avith festoons of flowerslooped from centre to sides the effect is greatly height-ened. Festoons of green suspended chain-like frofn thetop of a plain chandelier to each light, with festoons offlowers from the centre underneath to the same points,. Fig. 55.—HAND-BOUQUET, make otje of the gayest of floral decorations. Wreathsof flowers or of bright green leaves, or of both, aroundcircular or oval framed portraits may be used on spe-cial occasions to advantage. A ball, or hanging bou-quet, loosely arranged, suspended clear, in front of a highmirror, and with rich festoons of flowers, from thesame, point looped to each side, makes a splendid dis-play. The circle must be taken as the line of beauty in allbouquet making, apart from those loosely it is a table or hand bouquet, or basket, there CONSTRUCTION OF BOUQUETS, ETC. 185 must be a certain rounding of outlines, the segment ofa circle. Hand bouqets admit of the most formal ar-rangement of flowers, and the tendency of all cultivatedtastes in this direction must be admitted as proof, that^for this purpose something more than a mere bunch o
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