ARRANGING CUT FLOWERS. 



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pyrethrums loosely arranged in small glasses, with a little of their own foliage and a 

 bud or two, are exceedingly graceful, and look infinitely better than a large bunch of 



Fig. 131. Arranging Flowers and Foliage. 



the same flowers massed together and unrelieved by foliage. Those who have tried 

 the art of floral decoration as practised in Japan, where a branch of a flowering shrub 

 or tree is employed with an effect much superior to more elaborate designs, will be 



Fig. 132. Flower- Holders foe arranging as above. 



able to turn to good account many border flowers not usually employed. A spike, or 

 two or three blooms, will often please much better than a large number. 



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