PERPETUAL-FLOWERING CARNATIONS 63 



from two to three feet long, in one single order. 

 Speaking personally, I am certain that I now employ 

 thousands of them where fifteen years ago I used 

 only dozens. 



My readers will have gathered from my remarks 

 on general floral art that one of my rules is never 

 to use more than two kinds of flowers together, 

 and where possible only one, but this rule may 

 be entirely departed from where Carnations 

 are concerned, as they mingle admirably with 

 a great number of light and even fairly heavy 

 flowers, such as Lilies of the Valley, white or 

 coloured Lilac, Tuberoses on stems, Lilium lanci- 

 folium, album, and rubrum, Gypsophila, Heucheras, 

 Francoar amosa, Humea elegans, small varieties of 

 white and pale mauve Michaelmas Daisies, Roman 

 Hyacinth, or even small flowers of white Chrysan- 

 themums. They are also very lovely when used 

 with small branches of Primus trilobus or Peach 

 Blossom. The reason for this exception will be 

 quite clear to you when you come to consider that 

 Carnations are practically round and are fairly 

 uniform in size. Now every one knows that it is 

 utterly impossible to get really good decorative lines 

 out of a number of things which are all the same 

 shape and size ; it must also be remembered that 



