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then any trails that may lend themselves to the 

 beautifying of the vase ; placing a few flowers for 

 centre and then working up to the summit, finishing 

 off with a few light grasses. 



In thanking Miss Molyneux for the charming 

 insight into village flower-show work from which 

 this chapter has been written, I should like to 

 fully endorse all she says ; but there is one other 

 point that she seems to have overlooked, which is, 

 that the love of flowers, and arranging them, has not 

 only a refining influence, but it fits the children to 

 be helpful in later life in the situations they may 

 take where flowers are used in the house. There are 

 few men or women servants in the houses to which 

 I am professionally called to carry out special 

 works who arrange the domestic supplies of flowers 

 in an artistic or even correct way ; indeed many of 

 them who have beautiful flowers to work with 

 make nothing whatever of them, and I am quite 

 sure that young people going out into service 

 would be able to command higher salaries if they 

 were able to add to their other accomplishments 

 the art of arranging and caring for cut flowers. 



