In Natural Settings

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 92, 15 October 1932, Page 9

In Natural Settings

Try to aim at getting a natural setting for your cut flowers, and you will be sure of success, writes a correspondent. Cottage flowers, such as poppies, marigolds, and cornflowers, are best placed in simple earthenware jugs, whilri marigolds alone look lovely in low brass or copper bowls. Bulb flowers may be planted with clumps of violas and pansies. So varied are the colourings of these little flowers that they would blend in with any colour scheme. Mixed bunches in big vases or tanks a far more effective way of decorating a room than the usual way of disposing small vases about it.

If you have an old willow pattorn jug, fill it with lupins and Iceland poppies. The happy mingling of blues, reds, and yellows will help to brighten many a dull corner, and make a welcome change from the ordinary firescreen so often seen in the hearths. Halls are more often than not neglect--ed in the way of flowers. Dark oak hall furniture is a perfect foil for gladioli or.peonies arranged in Italian pottery jars.

A pretty idea for your bedroom is to have a bowl full of scented flowers. Sprigs of mignonette, night-scented stock, and clove carnations will add a delicate fragrance. Roses and sweet peas look their loveliest in cut. glass. Two or three perfect roses show off-to perfection in a tall, graceful goblet, while a modern bowl is reserved for the- more full blown. The grouping of sweet peas of mixed colours in a lustre bowl would spell charm to'any room.