The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-10-30
FOR THE FLORAL DEPARTMENT.
Decorating the Church.
IN TWO PARTS-PART TWO.

[ once attended services for some time in
an empty store room with perfectly plain
and bare walls. and I never saw a room
which lent itself so readily to decoration
L and in which more charming effects
could be produced. The side walls we're
tinted delicate green and the ceiling
creamy pink, both of them, with the mat
1 ted floor and plain furniture, harmonzing
beautifully with almost everything in the
\ way OF flower and foliage One Christ
mas we had only the greenery of the forest
holly and mistletoe of course, palmetto
leaves, branches of bay with their scarlet
berries, in the corners branchs of oak COW
cred with the brilliant orange colored "love
vine" and all the roses obtainable, tho we
thought they rather marred than enhanced
the effect Of sylvan beauty-the tender
4 green of the wall shining through all like
subdued sunlight.
On one side of this room was pine shelf
whose uncompromising uginess must, every
week, be coaxed. if not into beauty, at least
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used until it became nightmare Pam
4 pas plumes tackled lengthwise upon the
edge became tiresome after while. Vines
and flowers and greenery of all sorts fol-
lowed each other, some of them very pretty
too. But the most satisfactory decoration
N was that of short branches of the fiat
branChed arbor vitae tackled on in such a
way as to form deep fringe along the edge,
and the shelf itself piled high with sphag-
mum moss, whose varying shades of brown,
red and green contrasted we'll with the wall
which formed its back ground.
One evening-when this room was used
for social-happened to come in golden
rod time, and the guests as they came,
seemed to be entering a pale yellow mist
which apparently terminated in a fiery for
lest The effect was evolved from golden
rod-loads and loads of it-arranged as
nearly as possible after the model fur
hished by nature, and placed around the
walls, in the window seats, on the organ,
the book case, the shelf, and everywhere
else The charming fairy forest was pro-
duced by so placing the lights as to throw
the shadows of the golden-rod branches
against the walls.
There are many things that seem to
promise we'll in the way of decoration |
which, so to speak, turn to ashes in the
krasp This is true of English ivy. 1t !
looks as if it would be the easiest thing ia |
The world to work with. But be not de |
keived It is the awkwardest 'contrariest" |
Vegetable you are ever likely to get hold
4 Another little vine that mocks you with |
ITS beauty and the willingness with which |
II consents to be twined and fashioned into
Inv sort of device on Saturday afternoon, |
Il that of the Indian potato. But, alas
When YOU sail serenely into church on Sun
/ Law morning your pride takes header as
\ lou behold the strings oflimp horror which,
Irst while were your beautiful little vines.
J. l Ferns. likewise, are a dclusion aud snare /
b the unsophisticated, who have not /
harmed that they must be given time to |
Recover from the shock of being torn from |
heir messy beds in the shady woods and |
Mught to be taken by the roots and planted /
hoxes several days, or weeks, before