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Florist supplies is our passion, we do our best to supply
artists, which their art is Flower arrangement. Its recognition and popularity
and the interest and enthusiasm brought to it in America during the past 80
years have undoubtedly been heightened by the garden-club movement, which
provides the competition and stimulation of local and national flower shows.
The fundamental reasons, however, for it’s well nigh
universal appeal stem from the fact that it is a practical visual art happily
adapted to satisfy the need of the average person for creative self expression.
Flowers and foliage are readily available from garden, field, or flower shop,
and it is not difficult to assemble a few suitable vases, holders, and sharp
cutting tools. In fact, expenses are just exactly what one makes them.
Ingenuity, a sense of color, and a basic understanding of design are the
deciding factors in creating a really successful arrangement. These are the
same talents called into play in any form of interior decorating.
When the practice of an art grows rapidly, as this has done
in our country, a time inevitably comes when we should stop and evaluate the
situation. It is the easiest thing in the world to grow hidebound by
technicalities and a too literal- minded conception of rules. A study of the
past not only throws some light on the development of present day style, but at
times provides refreshingly different points of view, as well as new
inspiration, for the homemaker who wishes to decorate her period rooms with
suitably combined flowers and vases. Furthermore, the exhibitor at a flower
show, competing in classes, which are planed to evoke certain historical
periods, is naturally interested in all it is possible to learn about past
fashions in flower arrangement and the actual flowers that were used by florist
supplies businesses.
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