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JAPANESE FLOWER ARRANGEMENT

flowers and tied in a loose knot with the ends pulled out makes an excellent holder.

Use your own ingenuity and see if you cannot find amongst your possessions something

which can be utilized. You could not better succeed in pleasing the Japanese than by happening on some form of holder never used by them. Before you commence remember that you are not merely trying to arrange a group of flowers suitable to the low vase, and which will appear well in it, but that you are endeavoring to represent the conditions in which the plant grew. Should the plant

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