There are four flower-clusters and five leaf-sprays in the design. You can have as many as you wish but must end them with a leaf-spray.
Fig.28 - Buttercup design.
Buttercups—a Design
Buttercups are so beautifully golden, so glossy and bright, you would think they could be made into many nice things, a gold necklace for instance. And so they could if they only would not wilt almost as soon as they are gathered. To be sure, they will revive and freshen up when put in water if they are not too much wilted, but we cannot make them into jewelry while their stems are in water.
Still there is something buttercups can be used for, and that is designs. [Fig. 28] is a drawing from the simplest kind of a buttercup design but a pretty one. It shows five wide-open blossoms placed in a row at equal distances apart with a little spray of leaves and bud at the lower end of each stem. These sprays do not grow as they are in the design but are added after the flowers are placed in a row.
As in all other designs, each flower, bud, and stem is touched with paste on the under-side to hold it in place on the paper. A design like [Fig. 28] should be pressed after it is arranged, and it will last a long while and keep its bright color. A number of other and very beautiful designs can be made of the common wild buttercup.