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CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
following this in turn with a self-coloured decoration, the 
flowering season may be made to bring to the home delights 
in this respect which few persons are capable of appreciating. 
Before leaving this subject it may be well to point out what 
may be considered one of the richest and brightest associations 
of colour with the decorative chrysanthemums, that is, yellow, 
orange, and crimson, using the last-mentioned colour less 
freely than the others. At all times avoid crowding in the 
vases, etc., and see that each spray of blossoms, so to say, 
speaks for itself, and on no account add an additional spray of 
blossoms just because there is plenty of material available. 
Grasses and Additional Foliage. — The use of 
grasses and foliage from the hedgerows and the greenhouse 
will assist to enhance the value of the display, and in this 
connection it is well to remember that some of the pleasing 
autumn-tinted foliage, which is so easily acquired in the 
autumn months, affords appropriate decorative material 
without an equal elsewhere. Do not use too 'much 
greenery, especially in some of the smaller receptacles, 
and when foliage of a green kind is used, see that is of 
the brightest tint of green possible. Yellowish-green, as a 
matter of fact, is the colour most to be desired, as this 
assists to give a light artistic finish as well as covering 
some of the defects which bare stems, etc., always create. 
Arranging Large Blooms. — With reference to the 
disbudded blooms for decorative uses, these being rather more 
formal in appearance, and consequently less artistic than the 
freely-flowered sprays, need to be arranged with a greater 
amount of care. It is so easy when fixing these up in vases, 
bowls, epergnes, and the numberless utensils which are found 
in the house, to readily fall into the error of creating too 
formal an outline. This is specially noticeable where large 
vases are filled with these disbudded blooms. The decorator 
should try and break away from this inherent failing, and 
instead of making up a decoration that looks as if it had come 
out of a blanc-mange mould, to make the outline less even, 
arranging some of the more conspicuous blooms to give relief 
to the others, by slightly raising them, not all to the same 
