Flower Arranging : Page 9

Having decided where the arrangement will finally rest, choose your con-tainer accordingly. You might use a tall one for a big area or a low bowl for atable ; an exquisite china vase will probably be just right for a mantelshelf ora low white pottery container could be chosen for a more modern setting.

Then, in home decoration, the colour and style of the room should betaken into consideration and should help decide on what colour and size offlowers to pick or buy.

Having made these decisions—and in time they become automatic—youwill next go in search of this material, bearing in mind that you will makea more artistic arrangement if you use material of different forms, lengthsand sizes. Having acquired the material, you next, if you are a newcomerto the art, place it in the vase according to some of the basic principles,principles which you will be conscious of in the beginning, but which willbecome automatic later on.