A arrangement from the Constance Spry Flower School display stand at Chelsea Flower Show. Spry notes in 'Party Flowers', "One of the set of groups - Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, arranged for the Chelsea Flower Show, May, 1955. Autumn : Groups of berries, dried leaves, bracken, ferns, flowers and seed heads, spires of acanthus flowers at centre, beech and sweet-chestnut leaves preserved in glycerine, and massed dried hydrangeas."
Image from a Constance Spry photograph album, Ref: 2019.265.14
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