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finished as a table top, made to move on hinges, 

 similar to the papier-m,ache stands, so that when not 

 in use it may stand in a corner in an upright po- 

 sition. 



Another and newer style is the black velvet cross, 

 with cushion of the same color round the base, with 

 wreaths or vines of small leaves — the smallest to be 

 had — entwined around it. The effect of this arrange- 

 ment is admirable, as it shows with great advantage 

 the beautiful leaves of the Ivy, the Deutzia, the 

 Wistaria, the Bignonia, and the Silver Poplar, as 

 they are displayed upon the dark-colored background. 

 A wooden cross, of the height and proportions re- 

 quired, covered neatly with velvet, should be firmly 

 glued into the wooden base, and the white vines 

 formed of the stifiened crochet cotton — the little stems 

 which are to connect the leaves with the vine being 

 made of the finer thread. The exercise of a nice 

 taste, with some little mechanical dexterity, are all 

 that will be required to produce a very happy efiect. 

 A few leaves. Ferns, and small seed-vessels, grouped 

 around the base, complete the arrangement. 



Still another style, suggested by the desire to trans- 

 mit specimens of the art by mail or otherwise, to 

 friends at -a distance, consists in the grouping in a 



