At the fag-end of autumn, and with in mind the prospect of the winter to come, one severely reduces the quantity of flowers that one uses - fewer and fewer actually being available. Contriving to create a spare yet pleasing effect with the most limited of materials is surely one of the greatest pleasures of flowers offered at a Tea-occasion.

I chose to hang the basket in this particular way in order to have the chrysanthemum trail downwards from its mouth. By using the more spreading toad-lily just above this, I hoped both to block the view into the basket and to give the arrangement greater three-dimensionality.