HOW TO MAKE A BOUQUET.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 294, 10 December 1881, Page 4

HOW TO MAKE A BOUQUET.

The following instructions for making a bouquet by " An Artigf," in the " Gardei'," may furcisb some ÜBefui hints to many of our readers : — " For a flat bouquet, take first a mass of wbite, it may be & truSß of white a double white atock, or a clematis, or for a small bouquet a bunch of the small doable pyrethram ; then ecarlet or oiange, ar, for instance, a doable scarlet geranium, Tom Thumb nasturtium, or aoy brilliant oraoge ; put any of these next the white on one aide of it. Then take rel, a bright rose, and tte brighter the red, the nearer it should be to the white, so th^t other duller reds may be beyond: it (by red i* meant all colours of crimeoD. but rel is the true designation) ; place these on the other side of the white. Some very dark, almost black, flower may be also brought near '.he wbite, but only a very little of that colour ; and beyond the scarlet a very i "la bit of b'np, suoh as that of tmperor William paney or a Hale sprig of lobelia. B-yond the red hive purple an ' yellow brought iOJeh^-r, is<i on iha olhpr eirfe pinotees, wh.c!) aiihongh rirh in co'ojr ere not p'ro-mir-ftt, though any flnwe'B t^fl* have broken colours will do: beyond thesenj/Fun briD" f n blue in some fi"-^, a«^ ?our toiler flowera, as ppnstfniX'S (?^ f * blue kind m&kes on Bdtcirah'e *aksroun^), rfaik colored fußchia« (-00^ flowers or leaves of a browni h hu» should interpose beyond the b ! ne); 8D the last to introduca should be the maidenhair fere. M«ke this bouquet in yonr han^, and avoid too reach formality, as Ihe oloura will gfn=v*l!y arrange thfmEelvpg with saffifiien ffi^ct aud force, ihoogh they may intermix a little. If & round bouqua*, rhe white thonld be ia the cenlr?, with the above arrangement cf ooloors in mafees round the white. When your bouquet is large enough tie it round in the middle of the stems, cut them off evenly, and drop it ioto a vase of water. Two principles may be followed in making 8 bouquet; one harmony bd<* contrast of colour the other; forca of light and tbade; whichever is cboseD to begin with, pure white is absolutely nf-cesßary— even if only composed of a single while flower it should bs top lar^st mass of the whole.