The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-10
Arranging Wild Flowers.

We become enthusiastic over some
rare exotic, forgetful of the beautiful
flowers in wild isolation-the modest
violet of swamp or wood the column
bine, the fragile anemone, the quaint
hypaticus, the sturdy field daisy, the
gisha.
Many discard the simple trophies Of
wood and field because they quickly
/ drOop and become lifeless; but with
! proper attention they may often be-
come more thriving when placed in
water than when growing in the soil.
1t is, in the majority of cases, better
to cut stems under water.
?. The ends of woody stems should be
{ burned to charcoal. Stems of plants
that suck up water with difficulty
should be held in boiling water for two
of three minutes.
The Japanese are able to keep their
yellow water lilies twenty-seven days
by blowing into the porous stems a
liquid made from cloves boiled in tea.
? This may prove eff1cacious with out
water lily.
The removal Of one fading flower
will often preserve the others.
Cut flowers should be bathed in
fresh, pure water every morning for
two or three minutes, then snrinkIef1
lightly by the hand
Many persons are undecided wheth-
er they shall make the vase or the cut
mowers the center of attraction. The
real lover of flowers will select a vase
with the view to the most effective
display of the flowers and nothing
more: The form of the vase should be
simple, and allow the artificial erro11n-
ing to follow the laws of growth.
Thus a water lily or pansy placed
IN a tall, narrow vase is not in keeping
with the natural growth, and hence
Is inharmonious.
A nat, circular dish, large enough
10 preserve the proportion of the liIv.
Is the most artistic. Tall spikes re-
Quire tan vases, which should not he
cylindrical. but should be sensibly
wider at the top than at the bottom
Roses and flowers with comparatively
snort stems require low, broad vases
narlng at the top, so as to admit of
the graceful dropping which is so at
tractlve with both leaves and flowers
India was originally the authority IN
moral decoration. The Buddhist doc
Urine, which deprecated the wanton
sdcrlnce OF animals, is said To have
suggested the gathering and preserv-
ing OF movers. In the sixth century
some BUDDHIST priests landed in Japan
any carrier with them their floral ideas
ana secrets. These, DEVELOPED NV thn
japanese intensely artistic nst,ra
nave made their country a. LEADING ar
thorlty upon the subject, IT first he
came the religious pastime Of Nous
priests to bring to a climax the deliS
cate art OF preserving and arranpino,
mowers and plants. Today eTerS
wen educated Japanese thoroughlv mn,
oerstands the subject and finds thera-
~ IN the words Of that quaint nation
development Of religious spirit self"
GENIAL, genteness and forgetfulness of
We regard the arrangement Of flow
ers as a matter of individual taste hut
the Japanese. consider 1T as the accom-
pLshment of patient study. an art as
nIgh as music, poetry or paintino
MIXED with the theory Of the art is
a considerable amount of Eastern NH
Iosophy and many traditional snnar-
sLlIIohs, 1mparting an air of quaint
ness and mystery.
Inc eXtravagant taste which do
Iuanos the rare and the novel and
cannot admire the modest attractions
S o. the country flowers is shared - bnf
nttle by the japanese. The cononoo ue
VIC Mlla mowers of the season have been
gwen a prominent place in their fetn
gay calendar. Japanese flowers ore
BY py no means esteemed according to
thelr scarcity Of production ~