UNIQUE FLOWER STANDS AND POTS. 



'HE ordinary flower-pot has been taken so 

 much as a matter of course that few 

 persons think of using- any other recep- 

 tacles for the plant growths with which 

 they adorn their homes. Yet it is possible to 

 utilize various articles common to most house- 

 holds and at the same time produce something 

 appropriate to the flowers or plants that are put 

 in them. 



These holders, which are easy of construction, 

 may, to a certain extent, take the place of the 

 jardiniere that is now so common. 



The Japanese have devoted much time and 

 shown great skill in the arrangement of plants 

 and flowers. They offer good examples of what 

 may be done with a single plant or a few flowers. 

 The results they obtain are artistic and compel 

 admiration. It is often desirable to move plants 

 from one room to another, or to use a single 

 plant for a decoration ; the various devices 

 shown in the drawings (with one exception) 

 may be very easily moved. 



A hanging arrangement for flowers is 

 shown in Fig. 1869. It is odd and effective, 



and well worth 



Fig. 1870. 



Fig. 1869. 



die. It passes through twor-pieces of three- 

 quarter-inch stuff" cut two inches wide, that 

 are in turn nailed to two wooden towel rings, 

 one above the other, eight inches apart. A 

 circular piece of wood is fitted into the lower 

 the slight ring, and light strips of wood are tacked on, 

 trouble and the whole forming a basket in which the pot 

 expense in- is placed. Vines are planted and trained 

 curred in con- up and around the hoops, 

 structingit. Fig. 1870 is intended as a substitute for 



A carpenter's the fern dishes of silver that grace the din- 

 as sistance ner-table. This is the ordinary round wooden 

 may be need- spice box known to many housekeepers. It 

 ed for this, is painted a pale cream tint, and when filled 

 and for some with growing ferns is quite as good in effect 

 of the other as the silver dishes, which, to my mind, al- 

 designs, but ways seem a trifle cold and metallic for 

 all may be flowers and plants. A Japanese stand gives 

 may be made style to this arrangement, which might 

 trifling cost. otherwise be deemed quite commonplace. 



A child's This stand may be stained a dark sienna 



hoop is used or ebonized. It should not be over three 

 for the han- inches in height, as the plant must not be 



