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FLORAL DECORATIONS FOR THE TABLE. 



^ifj^ UT the form of decoration which demands the most taste and care is 

 undoubtedly the adornment of the house, and specially of the din- 

 ner-table ; a task which not unfrequently falls to the gardener's lot. 

 I have seen very beautiful table decorations which had involved 

 but little outlay and no great profusion of flowers ; while others, on 

 which neither expense nor blossoms had been spared, were either 

 stiff or insignificant. 

 White Van Throl tulips look exquisite arranged with their own leaves in 

 small silver bowls, or in low vases of white china, especially if the table-centre be 

 of soft silk, white, pale green, or salmon pink. Scarlet ones might be placed in 

 rustic baskets on a ground of pale blue or cream colour. 



Or again, a rather large vase of Venetian glass in the centre, filled with gold 

 and bronze chrysanthemums loosely arranged, with fronds of some trailing form 

 falling over the table. The other day I saw a table entirely decorated with 

 enormous blossoms of that loveliest of Japanese Bouquet des Dames, each 

 flower cut off short and stuck bolt upright, without a vestige of greenery in a 

 specimen glass. One could not help thinking how much better their beauty 

 would have been displayed had they been massed in three handsome vases down 

 the middle of the table, and supplemented by little ferns in dainty china pots. 



An ideal table in honor of a bride could be decked with coelogyne or lily 

 of the valley. The former should be arranged in shallow glass troughs, and if 

 some leaves and bulbs of the plant can be spared, the flowers will look doubly 

 well, whilst a too flat effect can be avoided by the introduction of some Lili- 

 putian palms. Wide bowls filled with Roman hyacinths or lily of the valley, 

 interspersed with tall slender glasses, each containing a few sprays of the same, 

 look very lovely; and crocuses grown in shallow tins covered with moss, are 

 bright and pleasing. — The Gardener's Chronicle. 



Something^ About the Baldwin Apple. — What the Bartlett is among 

 pears, and the Concord among grapes, says the Rural, the Baldwin is among 

 apples — especially in the North. In the South and South-west it does not suc- 

 ceed so well. It is now proposed to have a monument erected to its memory, 

 at or near the place where it was first discovered, only a few miles out of Boston. 

 The inscription on the' shaft will recite that near its site "in 1793, Samuel 



Thompson, Esq., discovered the first Pecker apple, later named 



the Baldwin." Many trees were grafted with cions from this tree, and it became 

 well known locally. Through the influence of Col. Loami Baldwin, a celebrated 

 engineer, it gained a wide reputation, and was afterward known by^his name. It 

 is a better monument to his memory than many a shaft of granite, or statue of 

 bronze to more widely-known, but, perhaps, to less-deserving jmen. 



