CHAPTER ELEVEN 

 IMPORTANCE OF BRANCHES 



IN "Japanese Flower Arrangement" it 

 has already been stated that branches 

 are used as flowers in this art and are 

 more highly valued. 



Just a glance at the pictorial art of 

 Japan will prove how powerful a place 

 branches fill in all they depict. It is 

 not strange therefore that importance is 

 given to them in flower arranging. A 

 branch from some variety of tree may be 

 had at any season, and after the natural 

 blooming time of the flowers is past, 

 branches from the pine and fir trees are 

 used almost to the exclusion of all else. 



The rules for arranging all branches are 

 the same, and as before explained, proper 

 balance made or marred these arrangements. 



It will be seen that branches of large 



