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ROSES FOR INDOOR DECORATION |
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Gladioli will last for over a week indoors, and chrysanthemums and orchids may last for nearly a month. Roses will last for two to seven days, depending on the stage at which they are cut and on the season-other flowers have only one season, but roses are available throughout the year. Yet, despite their relatively short-lasting properties, the whole world still regards the rose as possessing everything that goes to make the perfect flower. It is the flower demanded for all special occasions; it always has been so. Some of the exotic types of flowers almost suggest opulent lack of taste, but the rose is always appropriate. The bowl of flowers in the centre of the main table at the State dinner or the civic reception, or the vase in the lounge-room, will always call for comment if it is of roses. Useful for all purposes, admired by all, the rose is the bloom of choice for all floral art work.
Beauty is a composite quality. In any individual flower there are many contributing factors, the chief being colour and form. The flower may be of any colour, but this must be pleasing, either as a self-colour or as a colour combination. Form may be conventionally concentric as in dahlias, zinnias, and calendulas, looser as in carnations, azaleas, some camellias, and some chrysanthemums, or of an asymmetrical structure peculiar to that one type of flower, as in violets, pansies, sweet peas, antirrhinums, and irises. Each is beautiful in its own way. All roses are concentric and either of the conventional spiral, or of loose form. Many are spiral in their early stages and loose as half-open flowers. Any flower that is normally concentric is enhanced by spiral arrangement of its petals, provided it is not made up of a multitude of petals amounting to solidity and coarseness. |
