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Spotted-leaved pipsissewa of the woods with fern border, in bark- 

 covered dish. 



Red and gold bell meadow lilies, in large jar, with field grasses. 

 Gladioli the flowers separated from the stalks and arranged 



with various leaves for parterre effect, or stalks laid upon the 



cloth with evergreen ferns to separate the places at a 



formal meal. 

 Sweet sultan, in separate colours, in rose bowls, with fragrant 



geranium or lemon-verbena foliage. 

 Shirly poppies with grasses or green rye, in four slender vases 



about a larger centrepiece. 

 Margaret or picotee carnations with mignonette, arranged loosely 



in a cut-glass vase or bowl. 

 Green rye, wheat, or oats with the blue garden cornflower 



or wild blue chickory. 



Wild asters with heavy tasselled marsh-grasses. 

 Goldenrods with purple iron weed and vines of wild white 



clematis, arranged about a flat dish of peaches and pears. 

 All through autumn place your central mirror on a mat made by 



laying freshly gathered coloured leaves upon the cloth. 

 Wallflowers and late pansies. 

 White Japanese anemonies and ferns. 

 Grass of Parnassus, ladies tresses, and marsh shield ferns. 

 Garden chrysanthemums, in blue-and-white jars and bowls, on a 



large mat of brown magnolia leaves. 



Sprays of yellow witch-hazel flowers and leaves of red oak. 

 Sprays of coral winterberry, from which leaves have been 



removed, and white-pine tassels. 

 Club -mosses, small evergreen ferns, and partridge vine with its 



red berries, in a bark-covered dish of earth. 



