The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-08-13
REoEPrAoLEs 20 81.
Large Wooden Fern Bowls sad Vases
Are Elective.

Are Effective.
Ia either drawing-rooms or halls
where the color is sufficiently subdued
well-grown plants OF the pretty yellow
Genista, set in large Tokanabi-ware
pots and on raised stands Of the same
faience, or any dark oriental pedestal,
give a very glowing and brilliant deco
ration. Very deep blue jaTdinieres
filled with growing plants Of the dwarf
japanese spirea, with its dark. peculiar
leaves and creamy, taPering spikes Of
bloom, are very lovely.
Shallowy tints painted green, and
containing wet mud or WeIl-Paeked
sphagnum fitted on 10 an ordinary old
fashioned mantelpieee make an excel
lent basis for effective arrangements,
especially If, as is so often the case in
cid house, a mirror covers the chimney
piece. They should have a back i've
inches high and sides tapering down to
two and a halfinches in front. a coarse
network of galvanized wire helps to
support weak-stemmed OF dropping
flowers, and holes clipped in this net
ting at intervals viii admit pots which
fary The surface gracefully.
Gilded baskets are also very useful
and effective. At any basket-shop you
can choose graceful and beautiful
shapes and have them gilded or painted
in white and gold; let the tinsmith fit
a movable lining to hold water and you
have most fascinating. unconventional
repositories for your flowers. The green
rush baskets so prepared as to hold wa.
ter are also most satisfactory and har.
monious, and those who have only seen
them bedeoked with glittering satin
ribbons ready for presentation on the
steamers or over the fo0t-lights can
scarcely credit the peculiar natural
effects they have when treated artistic
ally by a home flower-iover. They can
be made to look as if you had plueked
some rushes. with the flowers and
woven them together to suit your pur-
pose then and fbeFe.
Common wooden bowls can be made
into Extraordinarily pretty receptacles
for flowers by coating them with glue
and pressing upon their sides pieces Of
the green "Felyet" moss now so beauti-
full in thegEoods The moss should be
lifted versa carefully and as little
broken as pOSsible. If done carefully,
though the moss will lose some of its
yiyidness, itaFilAcontinue green all sum.
mer a large bowl, say ten inches in
diameter, hang in a French window"
OF. in an-archway. by{ four green cords,
and filed graeefull4 with ferns and
roses or any simmer groWiI8 makes a
beautiful object in cottages t8p9er-
ate professions. It should hanga low
enough for The flowers to 81 on level
withat6e eye. In a quaint coAtRge, the
descriptive name of which WIS, Ivy
Nook" a bowl of this soIt, but doubt-
less IA inches in diameter, hung FROM
the center of the low-ceiled parloT, the
windows ofWhich were diamond-paned.
Quaintness and simplicity were the
chief characteristics of this room, and
this swinging green cup, with the large
mass Of flowers it so easily held, was
very harmonious. Filled with clusters
of the japanese monthly honeysuekle
and mignonette, and bordered with
wild ferns, it was really unique and
very beautiful.
For midsummer tables ferns are ale
ways pretty, and small vases holding
each a four-ineh pot of "maiden's hair"
make an ever fresh and cool-looking
adornment On a stately old table Of
nearly black rosewood, last June, l
greatly admired a large center silver
vase of Greek form, in which ferns were
growing, while scattered about the
table were little potholders of white
earthenware made in imitation of osier
baskets, with well-growR small plants
of native "maiden's hair" taken from q
neighboring wood.-N. Y. Post.