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A DIFFERENCE IN FLOWER ARRANGEMENT: BAD ON THE 

 LEFT, GOOD ON THE RIGHT. 



it out. When the flowers are gathered in this way they are likely 

 to last longer than when bruised by cutting or breaking. 



Colour Association. In the arrangement of the blossoms the 

 association of colour is all important ; it is possible without much 

 trouble to produce some delightful effects. As a rule I think one 

 colour, or perhaps two colours, in the same vase give the most 

 pleasing results, the latter more often than the former. Such 

 a bright mauve as the variety Mrs. W. Wright, for instance, looks 

 very well in a vase alone, but I think the crimson King Edward 

 alone is less attractive than when associated with, say, the white 

 Dorothy Eckford. Whether the addition of a flower of a blue shade 

 is an improvement is, I think, open to much doubt. The variety 

 Helen Pierce, mottled with blue on a white ground, is one that 

 makes a particularly handsome vaseful by itself ; and the bicolors 

 those in which there are two distinct shades of colour, e.g. 

 Jeannie Gordon, Triumph, and others are usually best alone. It 

 is with the more delicate shades that one can obtain some beauti- 

 ful colour associations. For instance, the apricot-coloured Henry 



