The Modern Art of Flower Arranging does not aim to lay down strict rules for preparing arrangements or test pieces . . . even less to give you rigid instructions like: this rose should be on the right-hand side and that oak twig on the left . . .

Foreword.

Long ago, when photography did not yet exist but the cultivation of flowers did, there was a plantsman in England who produced a very special catalogue.

Spring : 'After classical models'.