A BOUQUET.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2218, 25 September 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

A BOUQUET.

Arkangkmkn t t of colour is the principal item of success in a bouquet. The best known pi unary colours arc red, blue and yellow, and amongst the compounds- are^ orange, green and violet. To combine all these well we must turn to the artist, and he M ? iir"tell us €h'i\t pood eoutrasts are owv.ige and blue, yellow and green, yellow ami purple, red and blue, red and violet, rod and green, etc. - White may lv termed a Head' colour, and can come in iilmoot .uiyw / )'jer.e,YcxVept \be't\veen<a very d.itk and bright colour, where gray is bett» r. Bl.iclc does • well, to divide conspicuous colours like red and orange, for it does not produue ( such a violent contiast, as white would 'do. If the bouquet is to bo entirely shades of one colour, red is valuable; commencing 1 ' with deep scarlet ,in the centre, and putting 1 round it ring* of brick- red, deep' carmine, pink, pale red, rose, and a^ boundary of . white or groeu. Care has to, be taken to choose flowers that will<k;eep their petals, and for this,, flowers in bud<or just opened are the best. It is bad to. see a bouquet of flowers like full- blown geraniums, or primulas, for in a -very short tirao the bouquet will be a mass of vacancies. In putting- the flowers together,it is better to htart with a substantial [central flower, • like a rose or camellia, and bind the others, round it, keeping , the size, shape and .arrangement well in view. . If the stalks are short, lengthen them with ■wire, and never put on a fresh flower* till the last is well secured, or often, just as the bouquet is fimsed,;the centre will iall out. • t