162 BRITISH FLORAL DECORATION 



may be made in the spring when the Primroses 

 are at their best. The most effective way is to 

 place a tall narrow vase in the centre, then take 

 from four to eight similar ones of different heights 

 and place them on the table in irregular positions. 

 Next make a lot of balls of brown paper and build 

 little imaginary rockeries or banks, running them 

 from one vase to another and reaching half-way up 

 some of the vases. Cover this paper entirely with 

 large pieces of the flat moss which is so plentiful in 

 the woods, then trail light pieces of Ivy over the 

 moss, allowing the ends to twine up the glasses, so 

 as to completely hide them. Now make up little 

 tufts of Primroses, Bluebells, Wild Violets, Wood 

 Anemones, or any other flower that you may be able 

 to get, and push them through the moss just as 

 though growing. You need not be afraid of over- 

 loading the table with these simple wild flowers, 

 as the idea should be to create miniature banks and 

 valleys of them. 



The vases must now be filled with branches of 

 Blackthorn bloom, Wild Plum, or, if these are not 

 available, Apple, Pear, Almond, Cherry, or any 

 other spring blossom will do. 



A little later on the same style of table 

 can be made, employing, in much the same 



