Manuals for Ladies — continued. 
3 
II. 
FLOWERS FOR ORNAMENT AND 
DECORATION, 
AND HOW TO AERANGE THEM, 
BY THE AUTHOR OF " IN-DOOR PLANTS." 
" This little volume shows how to procure flowers on the best 
terms, how to take a rose without withering all the buds, how to 
arrange them with mingled strength and grace, which appears to 
be a complicated proceeding, but one made easy here. There is 
equal provision for the bouquet and the wreath, for the flat table 
dish and the towering China ornament. There is advice as to 
what to seek of the best in season, and instructions how to make 
them last the longest possible time," — Illustrated Times. 
" The author discourses so conclusively on colour that her 
little book might be recommended in a more extended sense 
than its specific one ; it would tend to the education of the eye 
and taste in respects in which Englishwomen are considered very 
deficient. Her rules for the harmonization and distribution of 
colour are artistic and convincing, and her ideas of bouquets 
making are practical, and within the power of every young girl 
who can cut a bunch of flowers in her garden to realize, while 
they invest those beautiful additions to dress, ornament, and 
enjoyment with a fresh importance and a new meaning," — 
Morning Post. 
" If most minute directions, and most artful and clever con- 
trivances can ensure success, this book will be invaluable." — 
Gardener's Chronicle. 
"Possessing a singularly correct eye for the harmony of 
colours, the author's directions will be found the safest possible 
guide by those whose taste is naturally less pure, or less improved 
by study." — Examiner. 
