The Canadian Horticulturist. 



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AN ATTRACTIVE RUSTIC VASE. 



IMPLE and inexpensive devices for the decoration of 

 lawns are often more attractive and beautiful than con- 

 ventional urns or lawn vases, no matter how elaborate 

 or costly they may be. It is true that such vases often 

 possess more grace of form than is usually imparted to 

 rustic work, but the artistic effect produced by the soft 

 coloring of natural woods more than compensates for 

 this. The illustration shows the promotion of a prosaic lard barrel from the 

 depths of a grocer's cellar, to a conspicuous place on the writer's lawn, where its 

 use is obvious and its beauty appreciated. There is, I find, a great lack of 



Fig. 698.— An Inexpensivk Fiowkr Stand. 



