The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-04-17

nlNIC beauty in many of the large
u eastern cities is being made prac-
teal and proving not only a thing
OF beauty and a joy forever to the be-
holder but positively wooing dollars
Tor investment i'm real estate. OF one
the story is told that bit of ground
which had long proved detrimental to
an otherwise desirable part of the city
was actually seized upon by the
dWeliers round about and seeded and
planted and made TO blossom as the
rose In a very short time the resi-
uents were rewarded by an advance If
price IN property until now there is no
more beautiful portion with handsomer
dwellings in all the city. Many lawns,
gardens and homes in our own city,
are there, which owners would gladly
embellish did they but know how to
20 about il and obtain truly artistic
beauty. SO for them and all wishing
70 improve or plan new gardens or
Know Of home OrnamentatiOn this
article contains fruitful suggestion:
adaptable to any environment whether
pretentious or modest.
Salt Lake greenhouses have made
wonderful advancement within a very
Few years. Not so long since is 1t, that
scarcely a CarnatiOn was grown here
and as for rose culture, not one was
10 be found growing in a greenhouse.
Chicago. Denver and other eastern
cities were called upon to furnish us
cut flowers. Now all is changed. IN
one rose house alone, were seen no less
than 1000 young roses in full bloom
such raritieS as American beauties, the
Bride, Madam Ghatney and many
others; beside thousands and thousands
of carnations with the wonderful
varieties OF pOtted plants, palms. rub
bers, ferns and other green things
characteristic TO Horticulture. \ sight
truly, that shows that large investme nt
has been made and that everything
which makes for betternent in supply
ing salt Lake City with the choicest
Of flowers is being done
Indoor Floral ornamentation.
To the few, only. would it ever
occur that fashion must be followed in
the matter Of interior floral ornamen-
tatiOn as in all things else. Smilax
just a year or two ago was quite the
thing for drapery purposes. Now it
has been entirely excluded to the pref
erenCe Of plumOsa, which must adOrn
archways, festoOn chandeliers and form
canopies.
For parties or perhaps weddings in
the home. consideration of the fUrn-
ishings, wall paper coloring, size Of
rooms must all play a part in deciding
somewhat of the floral arrangement.
Possibly the most elaborate interior
DECORATION a salt Lake private home
has ever known was that of the Amelia
palace on a recent occasion, and surely
any home. even though not so spacious
could gather ideas there of ways and
means to ornament. In the dining
room. which has a rich. red wall paper
and dark oak furnishings-Am
beauty roses and plumosa with red
ribbon bows were used exclusively. The
drawing room was made a fairy LAND
with strands Of plUmOsa, the Chatney
and pink roses. The art gallery where
dancers were received had banks o
palms. ferns and plumosa that looked
cool and refreshing as spring itself.
At a recent fashionable wedding
where all the points of good form il
late ways of oTnamentatiOn were close
" observed, the room in which IN,
ceremony took place was made
dream Of lOveltness by unique group
ing and banking of white lilies, whit
roses, white carnations. ferns, palm