6HAPTER VII. 
FLOWERS FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS. 
Dinner Parties — June Table — Pink Dinner — Conch Shell Decoration — Yachting Luncheon 
— Pea Blossom Luncheon — Sea- Foam Dinner — Chrysanthemum Dinner — Christening 
Gifts. 
FLOWERS AT DINNER PARTIES are very popular in our large 
cities, and the professional florist is taxed to the utmost to evolve 
something new in this line of work. The following may suggest 
something to the exhausted brain worker. 
June table : Large plateau of Jacqueminot roses ; delicate green 
foliage of ferns and asparagus tenuissimus. Corsage bouquets of the 
same, tied with watered sea green ribbon. Bouttonieres alternated with 
these at the different plates. 
Pink dinner : Sweet peas of delicate shade of pink, Mermet and 
Duchess de Brabant roses were used in this case. 
A yellow arrangement was of eroton leaves, combined with filling of 
Perle roses, tied with satin ribbon to match. A scarf of the same golden 
shade of silk was laid diagonally across the table, with sprays of golden 
pansies arranged as vines laid carelessly on it. 
Conch shell decoration : A large suspended conch shell hung over 
the table from the chandelier, draped lightly with smilax, intertwined with 
lengths of asparagus. The shell was filled with drooping pink begonias 
and Mermet roses. Smaller shells were placed at the plates on little stands, 
and were used as finger bowls, each filled at one side with a cluster of 
pink begonias and roses. 
A sea green scarf was laid on the table, on which was placed a large 
silver dish, containing water lilies ; the same for favors, tied with ribbon 
