carefully packed in moss. The flowers 

 and leaves are then woven into the 

 desired shape by dexterous fingers, 

 the floral pictures kept in the shade 

 and abundantly watered, and the plants 

 go on growing happily, far differently 

 from our flowers at exhibitions, which 

 are snipped off so that they wither and 

 die in a few hours. 



During the festivals the flower mar- 

 kets are open in the evening, and at 

 that time the majority of the buyers 

 are the working people, who have no 

 costly vases at home, but who do not 

 lack a bit of bamboo-cane in which to 

 place a twig or flower and contem- 

 plate its beauty. 



The arrangement of flowers in 

 Japan is not haphazard or left to 

 chance, but everything about it is 

 arranged by laws. There are certain 

 flowers which are used for fete days 

 only; certain others which are abso- 

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