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Styles. Only three boquets, against fifteen baskets and six other de- 

 signs, filled with the above flowers, we have made to be presented to our 

 lady graduates of our Broadway school, on the 24th of last nnonth. 

 The basket is much the handsomest and its various, neat artistic forms; 

 allow to the lover of the beautiful flowers, a vast scope in which to suit 

 his taste and general propriety. In the boquets, the flowers can hardly be 

 shown as well as in the basket, where a loose and individual arrange- 

 ment should prevail and easily can be shown. A nice green border of 

 Ferns, Rose Geraniums, or leaves of the Maiden Hair tree, to line 

 the edge, followed in the circle, (as the season furnishes the flowers) 

 either with Mad. Plantier rose buds, white Carnations, Orange blossoms, 

 Feverfew, small white Crysanthemums, white Asters or Balsams or white 

 Pansies. A third row of pink blossoms alternately mixed with some 

 brilliant colors of the new imperial or French strain of Pansy blossoms, 

 makes a very pleasing effect, to a vivid bright crimson or scarlet, or a 

 bright rose colored flower in the center. The beautiful La France, the 

 Hermosa, the' Mermet, the American Beauty, the Gen. Jacqueminot, or 

 the Sunset Roses. The Scarlet Carnation, the Epiphilium, Truncatum, 

 the Glare of the Garden Dahlia, some new crimson Chrysanthemums — 

 even some velvety crimson Geranium blooms, are, when harmoniously 

 placed in the center of such a basket, or a boquet, of great effect and 

 beauty. A few Niphetos, Bride, Perle, Marechal . Neil, or Papa Gontier, 

 rose buds, or Fuscia blossoms, scattered over the basket makes it ex- 

 tremely elegant and fashionable. The handle .sliould be trimmed with 

 sword Fern, Smilax or Aspargas Plumosa leaves, and I have not yet had 

 a customer that was not pleased with such a display of flowers. In the 

 bouquet the same principle should rule, only it can't be executed with 

 the ease and grace that it can be in a basket. In lady corset boquets, 

 the Tea Rose, the Carnation, the small flowering Lily, the Chysanthemum, 

 the Lily of the Valley, can be, when with long stems, or on wires, as the 

 fashion now demands, beautifully arranged, in loose form, and do cer- 

 tainly handsomely contrast with the stiff, solid bouquet of former times. 

 Of design work for funerals, such a variety of beautiful and expressive 

 patterns to honor the dead we have at the present time at disposal, that 

 it is merely a matter of good taste and refinement of the florist, to make 

 up such designs to do justice to the ingenuity of the idea of the inventor 

 of the pattern, as well as to the donor of the design. They are, however, 

 manifold from the simple wreath to the beautiful combination of the 

 crown and cross, or gates ajar, or the several designs of the many orders, 

 that a special description of them would be out of place here. Suffice it 



