May pinks and forget-me-nots.
Blue larkspurs and deutzia (always put white with blue flowers).
Peonies with evergreen ferns, in a central jar.
Sweet-william, arranged in separate colours for parterre effect
or in a large blue-and-white bowl, with graceful sprays of
honeysuckle flowers.
Wild roses with plenty of buds and foliage, in blue-and-white
bowls.
Roses in large sprays with branches of the young leaves of copper
beech--or masses of Chinese honeysuckle.
Roses with short stems arranged with their own or _rugosa_ foliage
in blue-and-white dishes that have coarse wire netting fitted
to the top to keep the flowers in place.
White field daisies, clover, and flowering grasses, in a large
bowl or jar.
Mountain laurel with its own leaves, in central jar and parterre
dishes.
Nasturtiums, in cut-glass bowl or vase, with the foliage of
lemon verbena.
Sweet peas of five colours with a fringe of maiden-hair ferns,
the deepest colour in a central jar, with other smaller
bowls at corners, and small ferns laid around mirror and
on cloth between.
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