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	Constance Spry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Constance Spry was born in Derby in 1886, as the eldest child and only daughter of George Fletcher and his wife Henrietta Maria Fletcher.
		In 1921, Constance Spry was appointed head mistress of the Homerton and South Hackney Day Continuation School in east London, where she instructed teenage factory workers in cookery and dress making, and later flower arranging.
		In 1952, Constance Spry was commissioned to arrange the flowers at Westminster Abbey and along the processional route from Buckingham Palace for Queen Elizabeth II's coronation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Constance_Spry (674 words)

	Apollo: Spry but serious: an exhibition on Constance Spry at the Design Museum, London, has been bitterly criticised ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
		Constance Spry is indeed a name, or an icon, or perhaps more accurately a brand, that evokes specific associations--there is the celebrated 1950s cookbook (viewed as a kind of updated Mrs Beeton), flower arranging at the Women's Institute, a Mayfair flower shop and correspondence courses in everything from etiquette to party-hosting.
		Spry was catering to an aspirational and competitive impulse, and despite its widespread popularity, her approach was at root traditionalist and anti-democratic.
		Spry herself emerges as a shy, humorous, unsnobbish and disarmingly unglamorous woman who was popular with both her staff and her high-class clientele (whom she did not try to cultivate as friends).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0PAL/is_513_160/ai_n7584379 (976 words)

	Telegraph \| Gardening
		If the name Constance Spry brings anything to mind nowadays it is probably a large, outmoded home cookery manual or possibly a finishing school.
		Spry was born in Derby in 1886 but grew up in Ireland, where she taught healthcare to the rural poor before moving to London.
		After Spry died suddenly in 1960 it seemed that her art might be forgotten, but nowadays her books and style are revered.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /gardening/main.jhtml?xml=/gardening/2004/09/18/gspry18.xml&sSheet=/gardening/2004/09/18/ixgmain.html (737 words)

	Constance Spry Design Museum Exhibition: Florist, Author + Social Reformer (1886-1960) - Design/Designer Info
		Constance taught her students that everyone’s lives could be enlivened by flowers, even in the poorest homes, and that all you needed was imagination, not money, to create a flower arrangement, which would be all the more satisfying if you made it yourself.
		Constance’s books were packed with practical tips from singeing the tips of wilting poppies and remembering to remove lilac leaves, to polishing ivy leaves with glycerine and securing stems by jamming them into thin wire with a wide mesh.
		Constance’s books were published all over the world and in 1938 she was invited to open a flower shop in New York.
	www.designmuseum.org /designerex/constance-spry.htm (1599 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		'''Constance Spry''' (December 5 1886 - January 3 1960) was a famous United Kingdom British florist and author in the mid-20th century.
		She has been described as "the Martha Stewart of mid-century Britain." Constance Spry was born in Derby in 1886, as the eldest child and only daughter of George Fletcher and his wife Henrietta Maria Fletcher.
		In 1952, Constance Spry was commissioned to arrange the flowers at Westminster Abbey and along the processional route from Buckingham Palace for Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom Queen Elizabeth II's coronation.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Constance_Spry.html (653 words)

	Books \| A rose among thorns
		The exhibition reminds us that Spry had some interest in social reform, and that floristry in her day was one of the few professions open to women.
		She was against rules, against prejudice, against "anything which sets unnecessary bounds to one's imagination or limits one's train of thought, prohibition about the combination of certain colours, regulations about the proportion of flower to vase and the labelling of some plants for consumption and others for decoration".
		In connection with this last false distinction, it was Spry who was first prepared to fill a tulip vase with leaves of Swiss chard, or incorporate citrus fruits or pomegranates in a bouquet.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5039434-110738,00.html (820 words)

	NFWI Archives - Constance Spry and the WI
		Constance Spry and the WI In 1958 the WI's recently opened Denman College put on its first open week end and the central attraction was a Flower Show.
		Constance Spry, was invited to judge the competition and also to open the Exhibition.
		Mrs Constance Spry, most famous of flower decorators, was cool and relaxed after an intense morning judging with Miss Dorothy Tuffin of Sussex, yet found time to write comments by many of the displays: "clever rich colour" for one; "beautiful shape- lovely use of wild material" for another.
	www.womens-institute.co.uk /archive/constancespry.shtml (548 words)

	Guardian \| Say it with flowers
		In much the same way, Constance Spry made flowers both more beautiful and more accessible to the kinds of ordinary women who felt that fiddling with vases was best left to ladies.
		From here it was a short step for the brand name "Constance Spry" to become identified with a kind of sterile and haut-bourgeois domestic perfection, very much at odds with her founding principles.
		Whatever culinary infelicities may have been committed in her name, Constance Spry was committed to the idea that there was no one whose life could not be made a bit better by a jam-jar full of daffodils.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5027828-110428,00.html (871 words)

	Flower Power by Douglas Lloyd Jenkins \| New Zealand Listener
		Here, Spry discovered how affecting the posies of sweet peas and violets brought in from her garden were on the girls and started teaching flower arranging.
		Most of Spry's advice to young homemakers was contained in the books on flowers and household management that she wrote once she left Homerton and set up as a florist.
		Spry later provided flowers for the weddings of the Duchess of Windsor and Princess Elizabeth (getting both jobs was, in itself, something of a coup) and returned to royal patronage as florist for Elizabeth's coronation in 1953.
	www.listener.co.nz /printable,2969.sm (1293 words)

	Constance Spry
		As the gallica parent is a summer only bloomer, then it follows that Constance Spry is as well.
		Constance Spry has magnificently large, clear pink blooms that are simple, and yet exceptionally refined.
		The plant in full bloom is a sight to behold, and it can get to be a huge plant in a very short time.
	www.rdrop.com /~paul/austins/constance.html (332 words)

	:: SHOWstudio ::
		Spry transformed populist ideas about decoration in the home and in doing so she established a unique philosophy of living that remains part of contemporary British style.
		She strove to present her floral arrangements in a style that was as perfect as possible, an appearance emphasised by the 'hyper-real', appearance of contemporary colour processes and reproduction techniques of the 30s and 40s such as carbro, dye transfer and Vivex.
		Spry's lasting philosophy was that income and background aside, the creation of beauty in the home was accessible, and most importantly, beneficial to all.
	www.showstudio.com /projects/bya/bya_info.html (516 words)

	Flower Decoration: a Book Review - Floral Design
		Spry’s aesthetics fits in perfectly with the taste of modern floral designers, so now it is time for a new generation to discover this master of floral design.
		Spry was known for her unorthodox approach to floral arranging, which is another reason that today’s designers will find her to be very inspiring.
		Spry’s contribution to floral design was so great that it isn’t possible to stress that enough.
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art16905.asp (466 words)

	Joseph Beuys' Hat: Constance Spry crapola (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
		Drawn from Constance Spry's archive, this exhibition explores her role in democratising design in mid-20th century Britain and her enduring influence.
		Enjoyed your fuming against Constance Spry, just a vague name to me until i came across references to the flap about the retrospective there in London.
		Constance Spry broke the floral design rules of her time which should be respected not mocked.
	josephbeuyshat.typepad.com /joseph_beuys_hat/2004/10/constance_spry_.html (439 words)

	English Roses
		'Constance Spry' had nearly all of the qualities David Austin was trying to achieve, excellent Old Rose flowers with good color and fragrance, all on a vigorous bush, but it was once blooming.
		However, 'Constance Spry' was crossed with a repeat blooming rose, and some of the seedlings were repeat blooming.
		Like 'Constance Spry', 'Chianti' was crossed with a repeat blooming rose, producing some repeat blooming red English Roses.
	temeculavalleyrosesociety.org /english-roses.html (2907 words)

	ClimbingRoses
		Yes, I was charmed by the book, I was charmed by his descriptions of roses and of the breeders of roses, but I was particularly charmed by the description and photos of 'Constance Spry,' described by Thomas as a climber.
		David Austin describes 'Constance Spry' as a cross between the pink Gallica Rose, 'Belle Isis,' and the Floribunda, 'Dainty Maid.' He introduced it in 1961, and described it not as a climber, but as a tall shrub.
		Constance Spry, the woman for whom David Austin named this rose, was a flower arranger of consummate artistry, and almost alone in mid-twentieth-century England as a preserver and collector of old and unusual roses.
	www.dragongoose.com /ClimbingRoses.html (1406 words)

	Footnotes
		Yardeni is an artist who collects; he spent part of his 20's in Africa, amassing a number of impressive pieces of African art.
		He also has a cache of old swords, which festoons a wall in the guest room, and a collection of Constance Spry pottery found in English stores and flea markets.
		Spry was England's premier society florist, party planner and caterer in the 40's and 50's.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/magazine/specials/20001008mag-ballentine5.html (795 words)

	The Constance Spry Cookbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
		The Constance Spry Cookery Book is one of the best-known cookery books of all time.
		It was written in the 1950s when both Constance Spry and Rosemary Hume were among the greatest names in cookery writing at the time.
		The Constance Spry Cookbook is now an established classic (and much requested on wedding gift lists) and a timeless treasure which stands the test of time, and is perhaps even more needed today when so many people have not been taught to cook by mothers or at school.
	www.grubstreet.co.uk /the_constance_spry_cookbook.htm (215 words)

	The Flower School at Grovelands Garden Center
		Priscilla’s Flower School provides the basis of learning, in the Constance Spry style, the art of floristry and flower arranging and being able to have the confidence in your own creations.
		Priscilla’s ambition to teach came from her training and tutoring at the Constance Spry School, where she was lucky to have been taught by Gayle Derrick and the late Harold Piercy.
		Her flowers arranging days are fun, teaching, in the Constance Spry style, and are available throughout the year.
	www.grovelands-garden-centre.co.uk /flower_school.htm (324 words)

	Constance Spry
		I think of Constance Spry as the mother of all English roses - these were introduced to the rose world by Englishman David Austin.
		I grow a lot of David Austin English roses in the Moosey Garden, and Constance Spry appealed to me because of her historical significance.
		Constance Spry is once flowering, since it is a cross between a Modern Cluster-flowered rose and an Old Garden Gallica (I got that from my big rose book, too).
	www.mooseyscountrygarden.com /rose-garden/constance-spry-rose.html (246 words)

	EnglishRosesNorthernUtah.html
		The fact that 'Constance' blooms only once a season doesn't deter me from counting this rose as my favorite, since the month-long bloom is spectacular, engulfing both plant and arbor by the end of June.
		'Constance Spry' is thus hybridized from the Floribunda 'Dainty Maid' (bred by E.B. Le Grice) with the Gallica 'Belle Isis' (quite fragrant, as are most Gallicas).
		The thick-caned, exceptionally hardy and vigorous 'Constance Spry' is one of the pleasant surprises rose breeding always hold for the breeder, for both her parents are comparatively small.
	www.dragongoose.com /EnglishRosesNorthernUtah.html (1442 words)

	icNewcastle - Shame on your Spry jibe, Conran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
		Spry made flowers more beautiful and more accessible to thousands of ordinary women.
		The fruits of those early labours could be seen in the recent incredible exhibition by the Northern Federation of Flower Arrangers at the equally incredible Seaton Delaval Hall last week, a festival which managed to be ignored by most, if not all, of the Northern media.
		Famous Conran may be for his domestic interiors, but his detestation of Spry's equally important contribution does him little credit.
	icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk /0100news/deniserobertson/tm_objectid=14720079&method=full&siteid=50081&headline=shame-on-your-spry-jibe--conran-name_page.html (1057 words)

	Constance Spry
		'Constance Spry' is named after a famous flower arranger from England.
		Our plants of Constance Spry are 6 to 10 inches tall in bands or 4 inch pots.
		In the spring, the plants may be slightly smaller, while later in the season, they may be larger.
	uncommonrose.biz /r/constancespry.html (309 words)

	Cercacultura - Constance Spry London Design (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
		From the opening of her first flower shop in 1929 until her death in 1960 hers was the only name that counted in British home-making.
		Even as a society florist, Spry remained a social reformer and encouraged her readers to arrange weeds, twigs and vegetable leaves in impromptu vases such as baking trays and gravy boats as beautifully as expensive cut flowers in crystal.
		Drawn from Constance Spry's archive, this exhibition will explore her impact on mid-20th century British life and her enduring influence on design today.
	www.cercacultura.org /entries/20040912092730/view_details (150 words)

	Strathendrick Flowers, Balfron - Team (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
		Carol was trained by Constance Spry and worked freelance until then, arranging flowers for weddings and parties throughout Scotland.
		Weddings will still play a large part in Carol's work and she will now be ably backed up by the staff at the shop.
		Having trained at Constance Spry in London I worked at Prestonfield House Hotel, Edinburgh, where the owner had the Royal Warrant.
	www.strathendrickflowers.co.uk /team.htm (440 words)

	Images and Opinions of Rosa 'Constance Spry'
		Constance Spry taking center stage, approximately 22 inches.
		It only blooms in the spring, but when it does everyone is drawn to it.
		Return to the Rosa 'Constance Spry' data page.
	hortiplex.gardenweb.com /plants/jour/p/63/gw1049263/page.html (157 words)

	Wedding Flowers by Brigid Rynne
		Brigid first took an interest in floristry at Winkfield Place, the celebrated cordon bleu cookery college run by Rosemary Hume and Constance Spry.
		At Winkfield she gained a distinction in practical floristry and flower arranging, and followed this up with a professionally-recognised course at the Constance Spry Flower School in London's West End.
		Working from home, she has minimal overheads - a benefit that she is able to pass back to her clients in her low prices.
	www.flowerynne.co.uk (137 words)

	Encyclopedia: Constance Spry
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		In 1917, she joined the civil service as the head of women's staff (welfare and medical treatment) at the Department of Aircraft Production.
		Click for other authoritative sources for this topic (summarised at Factbites.com).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Constance-Spry (681 words)

	Career in Floral Design
		Born in Boston, Lincolnshire, I began arranging flowers when I was 10, successfully entering floral design competitions at local horticultural shows.
		Deciding to follow a design career in the floral field, I trained at the Constance Spry Flower School in 1960.
		Following on, I worked for the floral decorating department of Constance Spry Ltd.
	www.edwards-lunn.fsnet.co.uk /cv.htm (668 words)

	The Constance Spry Handbook of Floristry by By: Harold Piercy, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0747026084
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	www.bookfinder4u.com /detail/0747026084.html (188 words)

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