WIiYDOW GAR BENIN a 
9.89 
Water Lilies can be treated in this way and thej can be kept several days. 
In making wreaths, a dehcate eye for combining color and light for arrang- 
ing flowers are required, or clumsy garlands will be the result. 
It is a mistake to suppose that a great variety of flowers is required ; simple, 
small wreaths of Ivy leaves and Myrtle blossoms, or drooping racemes of Deut- 
zia; of Geranium leaves mingled with Avhite rose buds, and its own brilliant 
blossoms; of Pansies, and some thick textured leaves; of Azaleas and Prim- 
roses; or of any combination of two or three flowers are much more lovely for the 
decoration of the hair, dress and table. 
The wreath can be tied with green zephyr wool 
upon a bit of thread wire, mingling the green 
leaves in a graceful form. 
For the head or for a picture frame, the wreath is 
made moie easily by commencing at each end, and 
arranging the flowers and leaves toward the cen- 
tre — beginning with a few drooping branches, and 
filling the centre with a high coronal of knots of 
flowers. 
In making up bouquets, frames of very fine green 
wire are much used, so that a single stem stripped 
of all its leaves, passes through each hole, and 
all of them are bound together underneath the 
frame. 
The holes are arranged in circles, and the eifect of 
the grouping is very good and lasting, but as soon 
as the flowers shrivel, or the petals fall it is nu 
longer ornamental ; but for decorating a dinner table, 
or carrying in the hand, it is a most desirable frame, 
as it is exceedingly light to hold, and takes very 
few flowers to produce a fine appearance. 
The frame should be slightly conical, and a large 
flower is best adapted for the centre piece, and a 
fringe of some delicate fern, leaves or flower, should 
droop over the edges. 
The frames can be made at home with a little ingenuity ; silver wire is the 
best, but copper can be used. The piece of wire for the outside circle of a large 
bouquet, should be cut half a yard in length, and the succeeding lengths should 
be three inches shorter, each one diminishing regularly until the last circle will 
be the size of a ten cent piece. Each of these wires, making six in all, should be 
neatly fastened together ; and three wires must then be attached to the centre, 
one at equal distances, and passing in and out of each circle must be firmly 
hooked into the outer circle and arranged in a conical shape. Thread wire can 
aow be twisted or netted in and out of the circles as close as the maker 
ly 
Wreath of Flowerg. 
