Heart Shaped

The usual arrangement included a tall centre-piece with two, four, six, or more, smaller vases etc at each end and then several other still smaller vases at regular intervals over the table amongst the larger ones.
Trailing foliage often joined the set pieces together and hung over the edges of the tall vases
Sometimes patterns were carried out with moss, leaves and flower heads. Initials, symbols etc were first cut out in paper or cloth this was placed flat on the table and the decorative materials lay on this foundation. Some of the flowers and foliages used for the table decorations were geraniums, fuchsias, roses, border carnations, cacti flowers, asters, ferns, mignonette, heliotrope, eucaris, verbena, narcissi, hyacinths, lilium species, orchids, jasminum, viola, stephanotis, bouvardia, gladioli, symphoricarpus, hedera ivy, asparagus, fern, vine leaves.!