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Additional Remarks 



trast, that even worse flowers will beat, in appearance, their bet- 

 ters worse arranged. 



" Let the reader fancy the following flowers arranged for show, 

 the blooms in the top row being all of a size and the largest; the 

 second row rather smaller but all of a size; and the front row 

 still less, but equally regular. 



" They will imagine how much the flowers are assisted by 

 the contrast of color, and how far superior that mode of arrange- 

 ment is to any other; but as stripes begin to be fashionable and 

 numerous, the following would be an equally efl^ective stand, and 

 there are flowers in the first which cannot be dispensed with. 



" In this arrangement the contrast is great, and the addition of 

 two or three striped flowers gives novelty to the stand; but it 

 should always be recollected that scarcity and novelty must not 

 betray us into adoption of a worse formed flower, for nothing 

 compensates for it; if either the dark or light flower, from a 



