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The Canadian Horticulturist. 335 



ARRANGING FLOWERS IN A BOUQUET. 



the stems of flowers are short, or the object is to tie a flat or 

 ided hand bouquet, how is one to proceed in spreading the 

 blooms ? Let us watch the commercial florist tie up a nosegay. In 

 the first place, if any flowers are too slender to be stiffly supported by their 

 own stems, or the stems of which are very short, he supplies a wire to make 

 up the deficiency of nature. Then he commences his bouquet by selecting 

 a good bold flower, such as a rose, lily or camellia, for the centre, which 

 he winds with a strong thread on to a thin stiff" twig. Around this centre 

 flower he then places a few leaves, and outside of these, to be an inch or 

 two below the flower he binds sufficient moss, so that when a circle of 

 flowers is added, they will not unduly crowd or overlap the first flower. It 

 is usual to start with smaller individuals or trusses of flowers in this front 

 line outward and place a few light spra5's of bloom between them, to stand 

 out boldly above the regular surface, next another ring of moss is bound on 

 the centre stem, after which more green is applied and another ciicle of 

 flowers and of projecting sprays. In this manner the bouquet is proceeded 

 with until a suitable size is reached, when it may be finished by the addition 

 of an edging of pleasing foliage, as smilax, fern, rose or camellia leaves. 



In the making of a bouquet thus, the use of a variety of flowers is as- 

 sumed. But the style now ver}' much and very sensibly in vogue, is the use 

 of but a single kind of flowers in a bouquet; it may be of roses, sweet peas, 

 mignonette, violets, pansies, tulips, lilies, or other kinds. In this case the 

 course to employ for preventing crowding is not dissimilar from that we 

 quoted. But to avoid a stiff" and monotonous appearance in the bouquet, 

 pains must be taken to have some flowers stand out considerably beyond 

 the others and yet not to be crowded, a matter easily effected by the use of 

 plenty of moss back of the inner line of flowers, for keeping the arrange- 

 ment open. — Popular Gardening. 



PLANTS AT REST. 



ly H ANY flowering and foliage plants used for decorating the grounds in 

 (^\y\ summer, are kept during the winter in the cellar, or sometimes, with 

 plants of low stature, in a pit. If there is a furnace in the cellar, 

 that will unfit it for keeping plants ; but a detached root cellar may be used- 

 With plants in a completly dormant state, no light is needed, but with those 

 plants that begin to grow in very early spring, unless they have some light, 

 the foliage will become blanched. Plants at rest, while they require very 

 little water, the soil must not get dust-dry. Soil in this condition wil 

 abstract moisture from the plants and ruin them. During the winter plants 

 thus stored must be examined, and if the soil is " dust-dry," or " killing- 

 dry," water sparingly. — American Agriculturist for December. 



