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yellow light, and all reds and yellows are much 

 intensified. 



As the summer advances, and larger things are 

 to be had, the flower arrangements grow bolder. 

 Tea-Roses and many of the free-growing kinds are 

 cut three to four feet long. The Eryngiums are 

 fine in a cut state, the bluish E. oliverianum group- 

 ing delightfully with long branches of the white 

 Everlasting Pea, while the still bolder and more 

 silvery E. giganteum not only lives long in water, 

 but is a handsome object if kept dry, lasting well 

 for several months, and losing but little of its form 

 and lustre. 



In the earlier part of the year, unless there is 

 an old-established shrubbery to cut from, it is some- 

 times difficult to find good greenery to go with 

 flowers. In March I make a good deal of use of 

 the leaves of the wild Arum, so abundant in hedges, 

 pulling up the whole sheaf of leaves and preparing 

 it by standing it deep in water. It goes capitally 

 with Trumpet Daffodils. The later Dafibdils look 

 well with leafy twigs of Birch, which comes just in 

 time to accompany them ; and later still, in the end 

 of April and beginning of May, Poet's Narcissus and 

 Sweet-brier branches go happily together. 



Many of the flowers of May and June — Lilac, 

 Guelder-Rose, Rhododendron, and Pteony — are well 

 furnished with their own greenery, and from then 

 onwards there is plenty to choose from. Still for 



