English papers enjoy themselves hugely, and not without some reason, at the wonderful things in cut flower work that seem popular just now. They poke a great deal of fun at the floral pulpits, floral bibles, floral preachers and floral church bells, which without any floral associations seem to be "the rage" now and then. Yet they can themselves work up some funny things sometimes.

"On the recent occasion of the anniversary of the accession of the Sultan to the throne Count Abraham Camondo showed his loyalty by offering His Majesty a magnificent bouquet of nearly four yards in height and two and a half in circumference. The structure represented a lemon tree surmounted by a crescent, inscribed with the name of the Sultan on one side in French and on the other in Turkish. The Sultan was greatly touched by this sign of devotion, and caused the eight men who had carried the monster bouquet to the palace to be adequately rewarded. The construction of the bouquet, it should be added, occupied ten persons tor a week, and was, no doubt, a triumph of art, casting far into the shade even the marvels which are daily put before the eyes of the London public in the show windows of the West-end florists".