Basic Terms

THOSE who do not wish to delve deeply into this art may not want toread any further, feeling that the pictures will illustrate many of thepoints already mentioned. Others may want to be carried a step furtherdesiring to know how to understand, dissect or analyse an artistic compositionof flowers, so let us look at some of the terms used as principles in the artof flower arrangement :—

Design

This is the structural pattern of the arrangement ; it decides the shape,height or width and consists of a planned relationship between the flowers,leaves, container and location of the room.

Any design can be produced to suit any occasion, but some of the mostaccepted designs used are those variations of the triangle, rectangle, oval,circle, vertical irregular triangle, crescent and low half circle.