HOW TO PICK FLOWERS 



beautiful form. Put a few flowers in one vase with 

 plenty of green about them, for we never see flow- 

 ers out of doors without lots of green. Grasses, 

 branches of trees, leaves from some of the plants, 

 are all good, keep your eyes open for good greens. 

 Asparagus is beautiful and feathery. 



PANSIES ARRANGED IN MOIST SAND LOOK AS THOUGH THEY WERE GROWING 



You are wondering how you can arrange a few 

 flowers without their tumbling out of the vase. 

 There are several ways one is to put some square 

 mesh wire across the top of the vase, and pass the 

 stems through the openings. Another way is to put 

 sand into the vase; wet it just enough so the flow- 

 ers can stand up in the sand. They will look as 

 though they were growing. Still another is to have 



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