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THE FLOWER GROWER'S GUIDE. 



Employing moss on tables does not, however, find favour with many persons, 

 and among others, Mr. W. Roberts, Peniarth, prefers another method, of which the plan 

 (Fig. 158), affords an example. The design is for a table to seat twelve persons. The 

 references to the figures are as follows: — No. 1, a plant of the elegant Palm Cocos 

 Weddelliana, and hanging lamp with shade ; No. 2, four silver candlesticks with red 

 shades ; No. 3, two small plants of slender crotons ; No. 4, six dishes of fruit ; No. 5, 

 six small glasses, each containing a truss of crimson zonal pelargoniums, with maiden- 

 hair fern. This would be a rich, but not overladen, table, with nothing to obstruct the 

 view of the guests, and the effect could be varied by using differently-coloured flowers, 

 but all should, in such case, be of the same kind. All the lines, whether straight or 



Fig. 158. Formal Design for Dinner Table. 



circular, are traced with sprigs of green box, with simple pips of crimson pelargonium 

 inserted at intervals. This is the waning style mentioned on page 269. 



If valuable china is to play an important part in the arrangements, the dessert 

 dishes in this instance being raised, low bowls for plants are available ; these may 

 be arranged both between the dessert dishes and through the centre of the table. 

 Vases for cut flowers would scarcely be in keeping with this arrangement, but the cloth 

 may be lightly draped with trails of greenery, also roses, chrysanthemums, camellias, 

 spikes of Orchids, with other appropriate flowers, as if carelessly disposed ; or 

 greenery could be dispensed with, and long sprays of either Bougainvillea glabra, 

 Passiflora princeps, Stephanotis floribunda, Euphorbia jacquiniaeflora, Allamanda 



