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Show ARRANGING CUT FLOWERS. Cut Stems a Little Evory Day, Put in Fresh Wator Should Look as If Growing. First of nil, a llttlo salt put In tho water In which cut flowers tiro kept will lengthen tho lives of tho flowers. Tho water should bo changed each day, and the stems cut u trifle, nnd washed by being held under tho fnucet. Homombor, when arranging bunches of flowers thnt tho most effective botir quets nro thoso mado to look as nearly as posslblo like tho growing plant. Uso plenty of green foliage nnd put tho flowers lu loosely, nover In u tight, st bunch. Tho best way to nrrango thorn Is to put tho green In first and then fill In tho blossoms. Sometimes two or threo long-stemmed flowers, or ovci n slnglo flower, In n long, slender vnso( Is moro cfloctlvo than a largo bunch' of tho samo flowers. Little wlro scrsons for holding tho flowers nro fitted over tho top of bowl9( and baskets, and mnko tho arranging of tho flowers a very easy mntter. This Is specially nccessnry If tho bowl Is a shallow ono. An Ingenious woman, who did not wish to go to tho oxpenso of having u silver wlro screen madq for this purpose, bought a wlro screen, such as Is commonly used for tho sink, and fitted It over n bowl herself. This, mado nn oxcollent holder nnd was, of, courso, much chcapor than tho silver ono. Brooklyn Eoglo. |