The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-04-02

many OF them will be crushed out OF
sight. And then all will soon wilt. Sup
pose this time you try putting your hand
full of violets In hanging basket mean
to say that you might make wall pocket
for them. You have, OF course, coil
of picture wire in the house.
Take it, then, and using a stiff
piece of pasteboard for back, pierce
some holes in it and weave the wire back
and forth until there is a safe and COM
Portable receptacle for your blossoms. Get
a piece of moss from the florist and fill the
pocket nearly full of it SO that the paste
board and wire work are hidden and YOU
have just green mass OF moss. Now put
IN the yiolets, one by one, wrapping more
moss gently around each stem until the
whole wall pocket is blue and abloom
with the flowers. Give them generous
spraying OF water and hang them in the
Smallest spot in the room Take down
aud spray occasionally and you will have
v1olets long after your bunch would have
Wlthered in its vase of water. This
Hover basket may be hung with a green
satin ribbon.
Another way often tried with excellent
results is to insert the violet stems, with
some of the green leaves, into the open
pores OF sponge saturated with water.
A fine sponge Will not do But a coarse
one, frequently wet, is both curious and
beautiful.
WHEN VASES ARE PRETTY.
The decorative properties of handsome
vase are by no means to be despised. But
all flowers do not show to advantage In
vases. Others almost require them. Take
roses. You cannot find a vase too cor
geous or too fine for them. They can be
put even in the ponderous jars that stand
shoulder high on the floor
But if you have only few roses, it is
well to discriminate. You often have a
dozen or SO, and you are in the habit of
putting them all together in your pref
TEST vase. But does not the doing this
often almost cause you pain? One rose
Is SO sadly crushed by the operation. An
other has its prettiesb side turned away
A third has to part with some leaves
maybe. And tomorrow all will wilt to-
gether. 1t is disappointing pity.
But try this way. Take the very best
rose in the lot and put it in a vase by it.
self. Ii you have not long. narrow
necked rose vase, get one when you can.
A dollar viii buy two small Japanese ones
of that kind. A rose is lar too fine TO
hide its beauty and fragrance under a
bushel of others.
Very long-stemmed "Jack'' roses and
American beauties nay be punched.
Their stems are long enough to allow
each rose to rear its head proudly aloft.
TO be admired by itself. Round cut glass
rose jars come in for holding a bunch of
roses. They can be bought for from 80
cents for the small, common glass ones,
to as many dollars for the big ones of cut
glass.
One very lovely glass vase designed for
an American Beauty rose stood at least
two feet high with base as big as a din
ner plate. The woman who bought it
said 1t was for the corner of her husband s
library, just where his eyes would fall
upon it when he lifted them from his
work. And she added that her Easter
gift to him was to be an order for big
rose every week all the year.
VASES THAT COME JUST FOR PINKs.
Pinks are always plentiful and never
very cheap. They are in too great de-
Inand to be ever given away. Arranged
by themselves they show to best adysn-
tage in low Jar SO that the narrow
leaves can be seen. But pinks have an
almost human quality of demanding that
their surroundings shall be in absolute
harmony with themselves, They are like
women IN this way. When a woman of
taste chooses dress she selects one which
matches either her hair or her eyes.
And when the woman OF taste puts pfnks
in water, she puts them in a vase which is
the same color as the flowers, whatever
that may be.
For carnations there is blood red vase.
clear as crystal, which, with handful OF
the lovely red flowers, is a poem-a thing
50 beautiful that you do not know how to
describe it. Then there are white porce-
lain vases for white pinks, and variegated
ones for spotted pinks which are SO spicily
fragrant. Harmony is actually demanded,
or the sweet beauty of your bunch of
pinks will refuse to reveal itself properly.
ARRANGING VINES.
Have you ever tried what little smilax
will do for your room? Or, if smilax is
scarce, bunch of wandering Jew? Take
a bunch of the vines and thrust them in
TIE neck of glass vase, even a quart fruit
lar wiIEdo. Arrange the top to cover the
mouth of the jar, and place it in the CEN
tire of a mantelpiece, so that the stems will
show and the vines trail far around. But
there are very many effective ways.
A very artistic florist who makes trips
ACROSS the water every year in search of
novelties declares that in no way can he