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THE JAPANESE FLORAL CALENDAR. 



ment, and the theory of it is quite complex. The basal idea is 

 simple, for the Japanese do not believe in such a massing of various 

 colors and of different flowers, branches, grasses, etc., as is needed 

 to delight our artistic senses. One who has succeeded in developing 

 within him the Japanese esthetic ideas cannot help feeling that what 

 is called here a "bouquet" is generally "a vulgar murdering of 



NANTEN (NANDINA DOMESTICA). 



This plant is frequently used in winter for flower arrangement, 

 when there are scarcely any hanas available. 



flow T ers,. an outrage upon the color-sense, a brutality, an abomina- 

 tion." The most artistic American could scarcely appreciate, as 

 much as even the lowest Japanese, the beauty of a solitary spray 



