CHAPTER NINE 



WATER-GROWING BULBS AND ALL 



ARRANGEMENTS MADE IN LOW 



BROAD RECEPTACLES 



LEAD rings and metal flower holders 

 are used in place of the wooden sup- 

 ports for water-growing plants, and 

 always in the flat, low receptacles. These 

 holders are made in many shapes and of 

 lead, iron, and bronze. The commonest are 

 of lead, usually of two or three circles, each 

 forming openings for the flowers; and in the 

 shape of turtles, fish, etc. An attractive 

 holder is a bronze crab holding the group 

 of flowers in his claws at one side of the 

 receptacle. 



The finger openings of the scissors used for 

 cutting flowers may also be employed as a 

 holder when no other is to be had. Or a 

 metal chain placed around the group of 



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