52" WINDOW AND PARLOR GARDENING 
specimens of some Palm, can be placed in nooks and corners. 
On spacious mantel-pieces a fine specimen of some flowering 
plant at each side is not out of place. On either side of windows, 
or on the window-sill, tastefully arranged flowering plants may 
be allowed. The central table may be decorated with a single 
specimen of some graceful Palm proportionate in size. In the 
dining-room suitable plants 
oe may be arranged on cup- 
, boards, mantel - piece, on 
either side of the window, 
and on the table. 
Special single stands and 
brackets can of course be 
provided for many plants 
in any room. Brackets are 
especially useful for climb- 
ing and trailing plants. 
In the kitchen, of course, 
the plants need not be at all 
conventionally arranged, the 
desire being simply to give 
a cheerful, home-like aspect 
Bracket with Plant of Saxtfraga sarmentosa. 
to the place. ‘This indeed 
may be said about all arrangement of plants where comfort and 
pleasure are more studied than gorgeous effect and conventional 
display. Simplicity should be the first law in all things con- 
nected with floral decoration. Any overcrowding, any plants 
placed so as to obstruct views of pictures or to hide furniture, 
or so as to make it difficult to move about, are decidedly out of 
place. 
Cut flowers in vases are often desirable in bed-rooms, in the 
