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and unpleasing effect at night, and much of the colour is 

 also lost by gaslight, etc. Contrasts with the afore- 

 mentioned colours are not seldom created by using 

 white or primrose- (cream) coloured Sweet Peas in 

 association with them, and this only seems to add to 

 the trouble. It is to the warm colours that we should 

 look for our decorative material for dinner-table 

 decoration at night. In almost every instance these 

 tables of warm colours present a bright and vivid 

 appearance in the daylight, when they are required, but 

 to see them effectively displayed, is to wait until either 

 gas or electric light is turned on, when the warm and 

 glowing colours are most striking and invigorating. 



We would give preference to pleasing harmonies of 

 colour, unless a table decoration of one colour be desired. 

 Charming floral pictures may be created by using two 

 or three or more tones of one colour in association. For 

 instance, of the many tones of pink, how easy it is to use 

 three or four of them in proper sequence, and what is 

 prettier ? The bicolors and edged kinds are sweet in 

 themselves or when used in conjunction with one another, 

 or rose and carmine, blush and pink, and other colours 

 nearly akin will always create a pretty decoration. 

 In the case of contrasts, it is far less easy to bring into 

 effect a picture of a pleasing kind. Violent contrasts we 

 would eschew. Seldom are they really pretty. We 

 rarely meet with a contrast in Sweet Peas where the 

 proper proportion of the respective colours is used. 

 Those responsible for arranging the decoration often use 

 an equal quantity of both colours when two varieties are 

 used. From experience and careful observation, we have 

 noticed that in the more striking contrast, such as scarlet 

 and cream, the number of cream-coloured Sweet Peas 

 should be much less than those of the richer colour, and 

 vice versa, whatever may be the effect desired, and so 

 on all through the different colours. This is a very simple 



