JAPANESE FLOWER ARRANGEMENT 



ural positions. The standard vases are the 

 most common, for in them all arrangements 

 of flowers, except aquatics and creepers, are 

 placed. They alone outnumber in beauty 

 and variety all forms of our flower vases 

 combined. 



Again, when we come to consider the color 

 of the Japanese vases, we can only admire 

 their never failing taste in the choice of 

 the soft pastel shades. Could anything 

 more clearly show their perfect taste than 

 their preference for bronze? This to them 

 seems most like mother earth in color, and 

 therefore best, as it is, to enhance the beauty 

 of flowers instead of detracting from their 

 exquisite shades. What a contrast to the 

 glitter and show of our silver vases, which 

 represent generally little else but their cost. 



The bamboo, in its simplicity of line and 

 neutral color, makes a vase always charm- 

 ing but, alas! not practical in this country, 

 where our steam heat at once causes it to 

 split. But while vases made from solid 

 pieces of bamboo cannot be used in this 



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