QUARRELSOME FLOWERS
When a ranging flowers in a vase, take care to avoid mixing kinds which will not agree, for it is a fact that certain blossoms do not settle down at all well with others. Thus, sweet peas should always be given a position on their own, for if assorted with other flowers they will very rapidly / fade. Mignonette is another blossom which should never be placed with flow Ors of any other kind, for it has a most disastrous effect on its. companions, although it docs not suffer itself at all. Some roses do not hit it off.at all well with other varieties of the same flower.
A T o flowers last long if brought into close contact with any kind of poppy. It has often boon noticed that, when a vase containing poppies has been placed on the same table as other flowers, the latter quickly show tiheir annoyance by drooping their heads.
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Shannon News, 7 December 1928, Page 3
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156QUARRELSOME FLOWERS Shannon News, 7 December 1928, Page 3
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