SEED-TIME Am HABVEST. 
Charming effects may often be produced 
by using different blossoms in a bouquet, 
shading tints or producing strong contrasts. 
But all flowers do not mix artistically; 
not a few appear to their best advantage 
when isolated. The beautiful Water Lily, 
so pearly white, appears best alone in clus¬ 
ters of itself. The same is true of Gentians, 
Azeleas, and May-flowers. 
Never place cultivated and wild flowers 
together. The blending is never artistic. 
Place the Lily of the Valley with any 
other flower and its beauty, is dimmed. 
Give it a back-ground of leaves and its 
perfect beauty is shown forth most rarely. 
Its own leaves make the best back-ground. 
Always after a small flower’s own leaves, 
the leaves of the Rose Geranium make the 
best back-ground, They have the charm 
of odor as well as of beauty. 
In making a large, flat bouquet, or in ar¬ 
ranging flowers in a dish, place the darkest 
in the center and shade out to the margin, 
which should be white. Generally the 
greater proportion of large flowers should 
be in the center and the greater proportion 
of small ones in the margin. 
Yellow is a convenient color in forming 
bouquets. It forms a brilliant contrast 
with red and purple. But it must be con¬ 
fessed that we have very few beautiful yel¬ 
low flowers. 
The pansy is always justly a favorite. 
Nature has made a bouquet of each flower, 
so give them a small vase for their exclu¬ 
sive occupancy. 
In selecting bouquets or plants for a room 
the furniture and general tone of the room 
must be considered. In a room with heavy 
blinds and furniture, and dark paper and 
-carpet, red or purple flowers do not appear 
well. For such a room a single large white 
flower in a tall vase is best. But where the 
furniture is light and the carpet and walls 
of a light color, light colored flowers do not 
appear well; here use those of rich, dark 
color. On a marble-top table do not place 
white flowers; do not place them against 
a white wall. But if the paper on the wall 
is dark and the table-cover is also dark, use 
light colored flowers in preference to those 
which are dark. 
It is also important to select paper for 
around the bouquet of a tint which will 
highten the effect. Contrasts are desirable, 
and therefore white paper is the best in a 
majority of cases. Blue paper is very rare¬ 
ly desirable; and when red is the prevailing 
color of the bouquet, paper any shade of 
red should not be selected. But vhen red 
or purple largely predominates in the bou¬ 
quet, paper of various tints of yellow pro¬ 
duces a fine effect. 
It is well to observe ti e shape and size of 
the vases. Give small flowers small vases; 
large flowers large vases; slender flowers 
slender vases. When the bouquet is made 
up, wrap wet cotton around the ends of the 
stems and enclose this in tinfoil. Ii is well 
to put a little liquid ammonia in the water 
with which the cotton is wet. 
When possible, select for bouquets only 
those blossoms which have just opened; and 
always discard diseased or imperfect flow¬ 
ers. 
Flowers may be greatly freshened by lay¬ 
ing them on the grass over night. 
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