VICTORIAN POSIES.
A surprising turn in floral fashion is the new popularity of "Victorian posies." Immense quantities of tight, round little posies have been sold, and are now being sold, especially in the north-west counties, and many gardeners are enquiring about the plants that produce them. Statices and other flowers more technically known as " Everlastings," have lately been improved, like more normal flowers, almost out of recognition. The varieties are new not only in hue but in size and shape ; and this greater range of both form and colour has much enlarged the scope of the compounders of formal bouquets. It is as much as one's place is worth to speak approvingly of so artificial and stiff a thing as this antique bouquet, eloquent of the taste of what we hold to be. an inartistic age ; but the gradation of pleasing shades is of a virtue beyond dispute ; and these quaint, old-fashioned bunches with the additional tints last quite indefinitely. They deserve a place with the Roman hyacinth and other bulbs that we are now potting—if we are wise—for Christmas decoration.
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