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of opinion that prevail on the subject. For the purposes for 
which probably fifteen out of every twenty cultivators grow 
flowers a high style of dressing is not required, and if it were it 
could only be effected at the sacrifice of other more important 
duties that ought at the same time to be discharged. A high arti¬ 
ficial system of dressing flowers will never be popular with 
gardeners and the great majority of cultivators, for neither them¬ 
selves nor others for whom the flowers are provided consider that 
Fig. 7 . —Hexacentris mtsorexsis. 
these are enhanced in beauty by any serious manipulation of their 
petals. They prefer the flowers to be as well grown as possible 
—large, bright, and full; but would never thiuk of discarding a 
flower from a vase, or rejecting it from the bouquet or button-hole, 
because of a faultily marked petal or two, according to the florists’ 
standard. In fact, what may be a glaring fault in the eye of the 
florist is not regarded as a fault of any impoitance by the culti¬ 
vator who grows flowers for home or garden adornment, and y(t 
one class of growers may love their flowers as ardently as the 
other. 
But, apart from the gardener’s point of view, there are a great 
number of persons of education, taste, and refinement who do not 
