BRITISH FLORAL 

 DECORATION 



FLORAL ART 



HORACE wrote truly and for all time : 



Naturam expellas furca, 

 Tamen usque recurret. 



(You may cast out Nature with a pitchfork ; 

 nevertheless she will always return.) 



Surely no artistic workers in the world, let their 

 media be pigments, marbles, metals, or precious 

 stones, have such perfect instruments as Florists 

 with which to materialise their art for, are we not 

 laden throughout the year with Nature's sweetest 

 messengers to Man, and this with such regularity 

 that we seldom need consult the calendar ? 



Nature not only places abundantly at our dis- 

 posal the flowers with which to carry out our 

 schemes, but she surrounds and stimulates us with 

 endless suggestions, which we should ever patiently 



