CHAPTER EIGHTEEN 



WHEN FLOWERS ALONE MAY BE 

 USED AND WHEN LEAVES ONLY 



THE best form in flower arrangement 

 is to have both flowers and leaves; 

 but there are flowers which may be 

 arranged alone. These are the flowers on 

 which the leaves come first and go before 

 the flower blooms. In Japan these are prin- 

 cipally natsu suisen, or summer narcissus, 

 and a red wild flower called shiba. Such 

 flowers may be arranged without leaves. 



In the case of the trees and shrubs which 

 come into blossom before they leaf, as our 

 cherry, the prominent parts of the arrange- 

 ment, Heaven and Man, should be blossoms, 

 and the leaves put in only for Earth. If it 

 is an arrangement where attributes are used, 

 make them of the leaves and have the 



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