THE USE OF GROWING PLANTS 

 FOR TABLE DECORATION 



To me the meanest flower that blows can give 

 Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. 

 WORDSWORTH: Intimations of Immortality. 



Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, 

 In sweetness, not in music, dying, 

 Hardback, and virgin 's-bower, 

 And white-spiked clethra-flower. 



WHITTIER : The Maids of Attitash. 



