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GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[DECEMBER 19, 1874, 5 
nor in the Pacific Islands before their groen 
ouquets ever dreamt or thought of, 
although, as Sir Thomas eee writing to 
Jobn Evelyn, says :—“ The use of flowery 
crowns and garlands is of no slender antiquity, 
and higher than I conceive you apprehend it. 
The crowns and garlands of the ancients were 
either gestatory, such as were worn about their 
s or necks ; portatory, such as they sare 
at solemn feas ; ; pensile or suspensory, su 
as they ha about the posts of their mee 
_in honour of ioe gods, as Jupiter Thyrzeus or 
pass, was solemnly carried about at the Hello- 
tian as in Corinth, together with the bones of 
Consequently, although wreaths and garlands 
(serta and serviz) may be classical, the goddess 
Flora never saw a true bouquet laid as an offer- 
ing upon her altar. Even the bunch of artificial 
flowers with which a Breton bridegroom adorns 
his coat-front is a symbolical nosegay—called 
A considered the prettier 
word, should be superseded in our speech by 
the foreign. “bouquet ;”. but as each of those 
substantives indicates a different article, both 
word and thing are good in their respective 
places. 
A nosegay, ae or small, eonsists of cut 
n thei l; ste 
united in a common receptacle, mostly contain- 
ing water, to prolong their duration nose- 
gay may be either one-sided, z.e., all the flowers 
soca o! one way, or round and lil: meet- 
with a full- 
fancy, a ac 
_ The nosegay is more natural, more 
t, of quite an every-day, living-r oom, 
: See ay character, with sterling qualities 
though quiet pretensions. The bouquet is a 
laboured, artificial production; of striking but 
evanescent beauty—an ephemeral mosaic of 
living gems which charms at first sight but 
speedily. withers the companion of sometime 
. full dress, whose place is the 
he ballroom, “the wedding, and occa- 
or _ Supper-table ; in 
board. The nosegay, mostly i Inexpensive, gains 
on 
a hold our affections; we prolong its 
existence as : we can, renew it 
ing members, and 
last. moment -of 
their. presentabili The bouquet isa costly 
ore ‘Soap-bubble, ‘which flatters the eye for a 
ngy : to. ry 
val into the dust-bin or gutter, Nosegays | 
attract the sympathies of either sex; bouquets 
are the delight of only one. Many. m men are 
of a nosegay ; few, I believe, would care 
much, for a bouquet. The fabrication of the 
S given a1 name to the fabricant, who 
the bo ely on leave 
of absence (permanent) to ihe buffet or side- 
: graceful al eon brits small ivory-white flowers, shu: 
is a douguetier, or bouquetist, but nobody ever 
thinks of talking of a nosegayer or a nosegayist. 
Bouquet-makers are not masters of the situa- 
-tion in respect to the flowers to be employed. 
They cannot use every flower they may have 
at hand. They may happen to be overstocked 
with unsuitable flowers and understocked with 
others needed for bouquets ordered. A ball- 
room bouquet should contain few blue flowers, 
if any, because most of them, bright and bril- 
liant by day, are dingy and ‘neutral-tinted by 
candlelight. Yellow flowers (so abundant) must 
be cane: used, being supposed by some to 
nvey unpleasant or delicate allusions. Nobody 
wont put a Marigold into a bouquet, pieste 
the French name for Marigold is Souci, which 
also means care, anxiety, trouble; and who 
would present a lady with that? The chief diffi- 
culty, however, lies in having a sufficient supply 
of white flowers, which are required not only 
exclusively for bridal bouquets and such-like, 
but also for relieving and contrasting with the 
various shades of scarlets and pinks as well as 
with bright foliage-greens. What a beautiful 
combination is scarlet and white! But white 
in bouquets, like black in embroidery, goes well 
with and sets off any colour. Now, white 
varieties of the Rose constitute the minority of 
their species ; : New 
beauty merely, but for their commercial service- 
ableness. The new double white Pelargonium, 
Aline Sisley, is exactly their affair. .Many white 
flowers have coloured (often yellow) centres or 
other disqualifications when pure white is abso- 
lutely called for; to obviate which, tricks are 
played. A bouquet is not a competitive horti- 
cultural exhibition ; and, in order to take its 
place amongst other. candid (literally) candi- 
dates, a flower may be Rachelised without the 
commission of a dishonourable fraud. For 
instance, the white Abutilon is a drooping 
flower with incurved petals, beyond which pro- 
trude its orange-yellow organs of fertilisation. 
Pinch out that inconvenient yellow tuft; blow 
fe ibl 
forci y into the flower s o as to make the Sgan 
T 
and concav: „in short, ony ou 
—set it upright on a stem of Rush instead of 
allowing it to hang naturally pendant, and you 
obtain a pure white bouquet-flower whose own 
grower would hardly know it again. Many 
blush or so-called French white Chrysanthe- 
mums become pure white either by being placed 
in darkness as soon as the flo 
g TES poti 
te : 
so well-known and s so great a EN is also 
an elegant and valuable addition to the list. 
But would lilac sas blanched to a w 
admissible at icultural exhihicion. of 
winter or spring thw ? 
New Garden Bia 
ORNITHIDIUM STRUMATUM, Endr. et Rehb. yp* 
‘This is is a highly curious plant, since one must have 
order 
| very ? Ornithidia in it at all 
ese ton Ts years ago one would have 
anew sran Though a small plant, a 
one-leaved pseudobulbs, yet it 
x vaginis ;  Cucullata 
varium pedicellatum omnino tegente ; sepalo supremo ligulato 
acuto ; sepalis lateralibus excluso apice kpag basi in la 
spurium subovario ¢ iculatum palis linearibus 
acutis; labello apiculato cum ace ‘line i semisigmoideo 
olumnz omnino une rote, gt om trilobo ; S laterali- 
bus oblongis ; lobo ansverso brevi acu depresso 
be pees te apicem ; Ke a, baeten sub fovea 
angula an! ra apice minute bidenta 
apex flavus, anthera violacea, oo 
| decorated on t = 
ed 
parable to ore of the Lily of the pon The 
rabl 
anterior part of the eye is re nd the 
age st mehak It hasj hæs flowered (Novenb 
rgh Botanic Gar ne ol a) 
eneak ducoreras of Saia Endres j in Come Rice 
PLEYROTHALLIS MACROBLEPHARIG, sf, n,* 
This is a tiny, but a lovely ar no 
Roezl = his new Masdeva illia pi 
It m sane per buna, “be eas oy believ 
by inferior stupid in 
ighest 
ve also just flowered the ra plant 
at the Hambürgh Botanic Garden. H. G. Rchb. f. 
DER i THE 
THE ac companying Nic (fig. 156) serves sto 
show how tastefully and pleasa: 
occasion o! 
party, or some bly. t re 
in which the walls of the airon which for the 
nonce served the purpo: : 
occason of a dance party, were so draped by the fees 
handiwork of some yo ies, £ to.. 
“The lower half of the walls i is covered with paper 
k attern, viz., diape 
Salis i 
of variegated Holly and waable sprigs of 
neam tastefully eines re sams ; the drops be 
the festoons bein ang fo of posi "Hol lly covered w 
red berri ere also 
the fonts of the walle 
h 
dth, and n band 
bout half the width of the ee Ate 
angle of the ceiling was a shi ps formed of rei 
with a golden cross on it. On 
three plants of Acacia 
op 
plants Of the variegated Abutilon thom pal 
young growth being charmingly coloured 
tween the larger plants a few fl i 
Chi 
ünculis capillaribas tonge. 
riangulis abbreviatis 
iliatis dorso 
peti, Eais petiolatis cuneato öblor 
eet 
callo triangulo in basi ante 
poe basi plus minus ae 
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