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you the idea, if you are not familiar with this 

 kind of work. 



Begin with your best foliage plants at the 

 bottom of your frame and work upward, using 

 your best flowering plants in the center and 

 at the top. If one has about as many foliage 

 plants as flowering ones, alternate them, en- 

 deavoring to fill in the gaps between the latter 

 with foliage in such a manner as to produce, 

 as far as possible, a solid and substantial effect. 

 If you have very few flowers it will be safest 

 to concentrate them in the center of the bank, 

 using your other plants to fill in about them 

 and produce the effect of a background against 

 which the flowers you have can display their 

 beauty most effectively. Of course, as I have 

 already said, I can simply suggest. It is for 

 you to study the possibilities and evolve such 

 a decorative scheme as seems most likely to 

 give satisfaction. Make a trial of the several 

 arrangements that suggest themselves to you 

 before deciding on any. You can form a men- 

 tal picture of your bank as you would like to 

 have it, but you can only tell what can be done 

 by experimenting with the plants available. 



If there is a mantel in the room, and no fire 

 in the grate, very pleasing effects can be se- 



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