ROOM DECORATIONS 



natural thing for them to attempt doing some- 

 thing along the decorative line with what 

 plants they have. It is of course impossible 

 for me to give any definite plan in this book 

 because I have no means of knowing what 

 material any reader will have to work with, 

 but I will offer some suggestions that may be 

 of some assistance. 



If you want a bank of plants, look your 

 rooms over well and decide where such a 

 scheme as you feel justified in undertaking 

 would be most effective. Then take inventory 

 of your plants with a view to deciding how 

 ambitious a scheme you are warranted in 

 attempting. A simple one, well worked out, 

 will always afford more pleasure than an 

 elaborate one in which scarcity of proper ma- 

 terial will be only too evident. 



Of course it is understood that the ordinary 

 bank of flowers and plants is constructed on 

 foundations built up from boxes, plant-stands 

 — anything that will enable one to secure a 

 sort of step or stair effect, the aim being to 

 elevate the plants in such a manner as to make 

 all of them above the pot visible. The ordi- 

 nary plant-stand of wood or wire, arranged 

 with three or four rows of shelves, will give 



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