98 BRITISH FLORAL DECORATION 



employed to produce effect without making it in 

 the least heavy. 



The larger flowers must always be used as a base, 

 with the smaller ones standing well away from 

 them, and if obtainable, a few light buds, either 

 closed or just bursting, will finish the picture. 



Nearly all the autumn tints go beautifully with 

 Chrysanthemums, and therefore Maidenhair fern, 

 dark green Asparagus or Smilax, should never be 

 used with them, but such things as trails of Amphe- 

 lopsis Veitchii, Lonicera japonica variegata, Berberis 

 Darwinii, or, departing from the garden to the 

 greenhouse, a few bronze, golden, or red Croton 

 leaves. 



Judging last year at the Crystal Palace, I 

 awarded the first prize and special cup to a table 

 composed entirely of white Chrysanthemums, with 

 palegolden Asparagus, and a'profusion of wonderfully 

 red sprays and leaves of Amphelopsis Veitchii, 

 but the exhibitor had not made the popular mistake 

 of using all small rubbish ; she had the courage to 

 create a good solid foundation of large flowers and 

 had stowed them cleverly away among an artistic 

 arrangement of smaller ones. 



