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among the pots will save a good deal 

 of fumigating. We will always have the 

 greatest respect for these good old pelar- 

 goniums, for they were instrumental 

 more than any other plant in our own- 

 ing our first greenhouse. 



Salvia Splendens. 



Don't fail to get up a good big stock 

 of some free flowering variety of Sal- 



via splendens. More and more every 

 year these plants are in demand. There 

 is something about the brilliant flowers 

 that hartaionizes with the autumn tint of 

 our fields and foliage and you feel a 

 glow of warmth when looking at a bank 

 of the scarlet sage. It is so easily 

 propagated and grown nothing need be 

 said, only keep the red spider away by 

 frequent syringing. William Scott. 



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BASKET ARRANGEMENTS.- n. 



In today's pictures we have styles of 

 baskets entirely different from the types 

 shown in the issue for February 9. In- 

 stead of the high arched handle, there 

 are in No. 1 two low circular handles, 

 which, when brought together, reduce 

 the center space and throw the flowers 

 up and out toward the ends, and in No. 

 2, stationary handles lengthen the ap- 

 pearance of the basket and add grace 

 to its severe outline. 



The first study is a soft raffia basket 

 about ten inches long, suitable for sus- 

 pending in front of a mirror, under 

 a chandelier over a table, either alone 

 for a small table, or in a cluster for 

 a long table, or for a child to carry 

 at a wedding. A larger basket of the 

 same style might be used by a maid of 

 honor or bridesmaid for the same occa- 

 sion. As presented here the basket is 

 a get-ready-quick, loose arrangement, 

 intended to last a day or an evening, 

 but it is an open question whether 

 flowers without sphagnum packing and 

 stemming do not last equally well with 

 those which are laboriously prepared by 

 the old processes. The amount of 

 water which the stems absorb from the 

 sphagnum, which must be too dry to 

 drip, cannot be considerable. If stock 

 is well filled by standing over night, at 

 least several hours in water, it will re- 

 main fresh out of water for a period 

 long enough for almost any social occa- 

 sion. The advantages gained are time, 

 a little material, and a mors natural 

 effect of arrangement. 



Some material, however, must be used 

 for a filler which will also serve for a 

 foliage effect. In this case a coil of 

 stiff Asparagus Sprengeri fills the body 

 of the basket and throws out its tip 

 end to the left above the handles. 

 Tliree or four sprays are added extend- 

 ing toward the edge of the basket 

 one through the handles sideways. Wire 

 these short sprays to the center coil. 

 Throe or four sprays are added extend- 

 ing towards the edge of the brisket 

 and one through the handles sideways. 

 Fasten the latter sprays to a handle 

 of the basket with a single wrapping, 

 and you have secured the filling in 

 place. 



Then, with the center of the basket 

 as a starting point, fasten the sprays 

 of hyacinths to the strong Sprengeri. 

 It is best to wrap most of them, by a 

 turn or two of fine wire, to the Spren- 

 geri and let them fall over the green 

 background whichever way they nat- 



urally incline. They must not all take 

 a downward turn, however. Set a clus- 

 ter upright, as seen a little to the right 

 of the center, and let a few short- 

 stemmed hyacinths be placed so as to 

 come out under the handles sidewise. 

 Care should be taken to follow and de- 

 velop the shape of the basket, which is 

 oblong. Equally long clusters should 

 not be allowed to hang out at the side, 

 as is shown from the illustration, where 

 the long sprays fall out from the ends, 

 and from the center toward the ends. 



In order to have a gracefully filled 

 basket one must have a well shaped 

 basket to start with, and must keep 

 within the lines of the outline to 

 get the best results. In other words, 

 enlarge and develop the idea of the 

 maker of the basket with the filling. 



The most desirable results to be ob- 

 tained from publishing illustrations of 

 this kind and describing so minutely 

 the process of construction is not that 

 somebody shall copy these designs to 

 their smallest details, but rather that 



be more easily discovered and worked 

 out on account of a previous study 

 having been thoroughly made. The two 

 principles laid down by this illustra- 

 tion are, therefore, conformity to the 

 shape of the basket or frame of the de- 

 sign, and a common source or center 

 from which to start all stems or lines. 



The second study is a more compli- 

 cated design, but more simple of con- 

 struction. It is a low, olive green, 

 rattan basket, rectangular in form, with 

 triple circular handles on the end. The 

 body of the basket is filled with violets 

 in two low dishes of water. The basket 

 is about twelve inches long and re- 

 quires 300 violets to fill after this 

 style. A small cluster of violets is 

 thrown over the handles on the right 

 and wired over the drapery of light 

 green embroidered chiffon. This chiffon 

 is drawn through the handles there and 

 allowed to fall loosely across the front 

 of the basket and is finally caught on 

 the handles to the left with the long 

 end hanging. Around the edges of the 

 basket the longer violets are drawn 

 out as far as possible against the drap- 

 ery. Then, starting with the drapery 

 on the right are La Detroit roses thrown 

 to the left across the corner of the 

 basket. 



One of the best elements of a floral 

 design can never appear in a photo- 

 graph, and that is the coloring, but it 

 will not be difficult in this case to see 

 the color scheme in the mind's eye. 

 Violet, crimson pink and light green 

 describe it fully. 



This basket is suitable for a low 

 centerpiece and can be filled with 

 sphagnum in the usual way. Stem the 

 violets in clusters of six or a dozen on 

 whole picks. See that the upper ends 

 of the picks run well in under the green 

 covering of the sphagnum. Wood ferns 

 are the best covering. Insert the 

 stemmed violets in clumps to look like 

 live plants. This is a series of bunches 



Suspended Basket of Roman Hyacintlis. 



the principles oi? design and construc- 

 tion may be discovered, described and 

 studied for succeeding occasions. If 

 one can learn how to fill one basket 

 correctly and gracefully he will prob- 

 ably be able to meet the next emerg- 

 ency equally well, and even though 

 some other liiw is involved in the cor- 

 rect arrangement of the second, it can 



like the simple bunch of the hyacinths 

 in No. 1, which was remarked upon 

 as illustrating the principle that all 

 lines and stems of a design should 

 spring, or appear to spring, from a com- 

 mon source. All the space between the 

 clumps need not be filled closely; allow 

 patches of the background to appear 

 here and there. Following the tame 



