It is a thing I enjoy.
There is nothing more lamentable than to see the ignorant, and I may almost say brutal, way in which people bunch flowers up into great masses and call that decoration.

They might just as well bunch up so many masses of bright colored rags.

The shape of the flower, its manner of growth, and its individuality are altogether lost, and the sole effect produced is that of a confused mass of color.

I will undertake that part of the business, and you had better leave the buying of the flowers to me." "Certainly, Doctor," the Major said; "I will give you carte blanche." "Well, I must see your dinner service, Major, so that I may know about its color, and what you have got to put the flowers into." "I will have a regular parade tomorrow morning after breakfast, if it would be convenient for you to look in then, and at the same time I will get you to have a talk with Rumzan and the cook.

I am almost as new to giving dinner parties as Isobel is.