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eleven inches in diameter and seven 

 inches high, also filled with damp sand, 

 and from the middle of the stand rose a 

 slender, flaring glass vase ten inches high 

 and shading from amber at the base to 

 ruby at the broadly fluted, flower-like 

 rim. It was held firmly in place by being 

 imbedded in the wet sand. The pan was 

 a little larger than the top of the table 

 and was heavily fringed all around with 

 maiden hair ferns, the space between 

 them and the stem of the glass stand 

 being banked with snowballs — a full 

 fleecy white cushion from which, near 

 each corner, rose three of the short, curv- 

 ing, pale green fronds of the sensitive fern. 

 The glass stand was also filled by a soft 

 puff of snowballs openly fringed and 

 lightly veiled with maiden hair, and the 

 vase held several clear yellow native cyp- 

 ripediums, popularly known as ladies' 

 slippers, on long stems with their beauti- 

 ful leaves, rising from a spreading tuft of 

 slender fronds of the evergreen fern. 



The remaining decorations consisted of 

 bouquets, the most noticeable being 

 a red jar of white irises, a large pink 

 vase filled with Wiegelia rosea, and in 

 the window recess back of the pulpit, tall 

 groups of purple irises with their distinct 

 foliage, rising from the handsome heart- 

 shaped leavesof the white day lily, were 

 sharplv outlined against the opaque glass. 

 Fanny Copley Seavey. 



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