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Pink moccasin-flowers with ferns, in bark-covered jar. 



Pansies with ivy or laurel leaves, arranged in narrow dishes to 



form a parterre about a central mirror. 

 Iceland poppies with small ferns or grasses. 

 May pinks and forget-me-nots. 



Blue larkspurs and deutzia (always put white with blue flowers). 

 Peonies with evergreen ferns, in a central jar. 

 Sweet-william, arranged in separate colours for parterre effect 



or in a large blue-and-white bowl, with graceful sprays of 



honeysuckle flowers. 

 Wild roses with plenty of buds and foliage, in blue-and-white 



bowls. 



Roses in large sprays with branches of the young leaves of cop- 

 per beech or masses of Chinese honeysuckle. 

 Roses with short stems arranged with their own or rugosa foliage 



in blue-and-white dishes that have coarse wire netting fitted 



to the top to keep the flowers in place. 

 White field daisies, clover, and flowering grasses, in a large 



bowl or jar. 

 Mountain laurel with its own leaves, in central jar and parterre 



dishes. 

 Nasturtiums, in cut-glass bowl or vase, with the foliage of 



lemon verbena. 

 Sweet peas of five colours with a fringe of maiden-hair ferns, 



the deepest colour in a central jar, with other smaller 



bowls at corners, and small ferns laid around mirror and 



on cloth between. 

 Japan lilies, single flowers, in parterre dishes with ivy leaves, and 



sprays in central vase. 

 Balsams arranged in effect of set borders. 

 Asters in separate colours. 



