CHAPTER X 



CUT FLOWERS, AND A FEW HINTS ON 

 THEIR ARRANGEMENT 



OF all the tests of friendship none, I think, 

 is greater than to permit our friends to arrange 

 flowers in one's own house, or to be permitted 

 by them to arrange flowers in theirs. I only 

 know three people among the whole of my 

 relations, friends, or acquaintance, to whom 

 I can entrust the gathering and arranging of 

 my flowers with perfect confidence. And as 

 for risking precious friendships by daring to 

 offer help in " doing the flowers " for any 

 one else, I am much too old and wary to 

 dream of such folly, even though my fingers 

 may ache to improve on what seems to me 

 a deplorable arrangement. For every one has 

 their own very definite views on this matter. 

 And to see those views disregarded or badly 



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