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keep it fresh. Asparagus of a pale-green shade may 

 also be used most effectively, and for a pretty finish we 

 know of nothing better. We should hesitate to use 

 sprays of maidenhair and other ferns. 



Bouquets, sprays for ladies, button-holes, etc. etc., 

 composed exclusively of Sweet Peas are very sweet and 

 pretty. Anything of too formal a character, however, 

 should be avoided. An easy, graceful, and light 

 disposition of the flowers should be striven after, and 

 this is not difficult to accomplish. Decorations of 

 Sweet Peas are so often rotund in their finish, suggesting 

 the idea that some one had been over them with the 

 shears as a finale. This is not art ! What was said 

 regarding colour association in the chapter devoted to 

 dinner-table decorations, applies equally well in the 

 present instance. It is also well to remember that, in 

 adjusting the sprays of blossoms in position, not one 

 should be used unless it has a mission to fulfil. It 

 should, so to say, speak for itself. To place any flower 

 in a receptacle just for the sake of filling it, and without 

 a special reason for doing so, is altogether wrong. 



