THE FLOWER ART OF JAPAN 



occasions. White leaves are sought by poets, 

 as to them they represent clouds, old age, etc. 



DYING OR LIVING IN FLOWERS OR LEAVES 



If leaves or petals turn back or change 

 their color, or anything out of the natural 

 happens, they are known as dead. As in 

 this state they are frequently beautiful, 



they are sometimes 

 used, but never ;in im- 

 portant parts of the 

 group. All natural 

 conditions of leaves 

 are called living and put 

 in prominent places. 

 Crown Leaves or leaves 

 growing above the 

 flower, as illustrated in the cut, which has 

 two crown leaves, such are found oftener in 

 water-growing flowers, as with the lotus and 

 some lilies the flower rests on the surface of 

 the water and the leaf rises tall above it. If 

 leaves grow too long never cut with scissors; 

 break or tear with the hand. This makes it 

 appear like natural damage of the wind. 



