ARRANGEMENT OR GROUPING OF FLOWERS.
The lighter flowers, both of form and color, should be so placed as to be at the top, excepting such flowers as passion flower, fuchsia, etc., which are drooping or climbing plants.
Aim at simplicity in coloring rather than too great a mixture, which gives a confused look.
The foliage is used as a background; there should be no stint of this. The great fault observable in the arrangement of bouquets, whether natural or artificial, is that they rarely have the leaves brought as prominently forward as they should be, consequently the bouquet loses both character and elegance.
Ferns, of which there is now so large and beautiful a collection, add very much to the elegance of the bouquet.
Examples in Grouping. No. 1, Roses. Gloire de Dijon, apricot; Geant de Bataille, scarlet and purple; Aimee Vibert, small white; pink cabbage; forget-me-not; maiden hair fern.
No. 2. Rhododendron, crimson; red spotted do.; deep pink do.; pale do.; white do. Some large ferns and orange azaleas of various shades.
No. 3. White camellias; red camellias; pale yellow azalea; pink fuchsia; deep blue cineraria; ribbon grass.
No. 4. Passion flower (various); fuchsias; thunbergia; hop; ivy leaves.