62 The Japanese Floral Calendar. 



abstract moral ideas, such as charity, faith, piety, content, 

 calm, and connubial bliss, may be expressed in the beauties 

 of nature. 



NANTEN (NANDINA DOMESTICA). 



This plant is frequently used in winter for flower arrangement, 

 when there are scarcely any hana available. 



Japan is a land of flowers, "a veritable garden of flow- 

 ers" ; but it maintains a nobility in floral as well as social 

 institutions. There are about a dozen hana which are 

 reckoned among first-class; and even among these feudal 



