74 FLORAL DECORATIONS. 
amount of color when placed at a distance above the line 
of sight—in fact, the most effective flowers I noticed for 
lofty decorations were Sunflowers and the feathery silver 
plumes of the Pampas Grass. Perhaps the font, tor ap¬ 
propriate and chaste arrangements, was the most effective 
of anything I saw. The base was covered with Ivy closely 
arranged, in which were inserted Snowberries, white Roses, 
and other white flowers, contrasting well with the dark 
foliage. Masses of Lycopodium denticulatum filled the 
niches between the supporting pillars, while a dense 
growth of Sedum carneum variegatum hung down grace¬ 
fully from the top, and over all was a circular trellis cov¬ 
ered with Clematis Flemmula and Stephanotis. In the 
angles, on bases of Ivy, were arranged groups of choice 
Ferns.” 
Another writer in the same journal says :—“ What we 
should chiefly guard against is over-doing the matter. In 
the rural parish of Middleton Tyas, in Yorkshire, I saw 
church decoration carried out in an exceedingly interesting 
manner, the materials used being leaves of the Spanish 
Chestnut, Oak, Beech, sprigs of Ivy and Birch, a few 
stalks of Oats, Perilla Nankinensis, and one or two wild 
Grasses, all judiciously worked up, and made into wreaths 
of the most harmonious and pleasing description. The 
