CHAPTER FIFTEEN 



COMBINING DIFFERENT VARIETIES 

 OF FLOWERS 



IT is frequently asked, do the Japanese 

 never use more than one variety of 

 flower at a time? They combine their 

 flowers as often as do other nations, and in 

 fact, for such seasons as New Year, also on 

 all congratulatory occasions, they always use 

 two or more varieties in combination. 



The Sho Chiku Bai, which is the pine, 

 bamboo and plum together, is a favorite 

 New Year's decoration, and the illustration 

 will show one of these arrangements. Wild 

 flowers, both of the spring and autumn 

 varieties, are placed together, in one vase, 

 arranged as they grow, field flowers and 

 grasses grouped together. 



Branches of trees with spring flowers 

 at their roots, such as is illustrated by the 

 pine and narcissus arrangement, are very 



