Floral Decorations for the Dwelling House

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Excerpt from Floral Decorations for the Dwelling House: A Practical Guide to the Home Arrangement of Plants and FlowersThe use of Floral Decorations in houses has become quite general in this country and this fact has induced me to write this little work, in the hope that it may prove a useful guide to those who, like myself, are fond of devoting a few moments now and then to the arrangement of cut ¿owers. Whether these ¿owers be choice, or only wild varieties, they will impart to the table on which they are placed an air of refinement that cannot otherwise be obtained, and the trouble and time spent in arranging them will be repaid tenfold by the pleasing e¿'ect produced. I must take this opportunity of thanking Mr. W. Robinson, Editor of The Garden, to whom I am indebted for many of the accompanying engravings, which serve so well to illustrate the various styles of ¿oral embellishment of which I have.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.