GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS 
pastime of cultured people. Moreover, Japan’s 
greatest military men have always practised the 
art, claiming that it calmed their minds so that 
they could make clearer decisions on going into 
battle! 
Briefly put, the Japanese ideas are as follows: 
First, to use very few flowers (preferably three, 
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BLOSSOMS IN JAPANESE ARRANGEMENT 
five, or seven, with their foliage), and but one kind 
together. Then to arrange these so that the three 
main blossoms form a triangle,—the highest point 
of which they usually call Heaven, the middle point 
Man, and the lowest point Earth. If five or seven 
flowers are used, the others are the unimportant 
ones, and used as ‘‘attributes,’’ placed near the im- 
portant points, And as many of their favorite flow: 
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