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people cannot afford ornamental pots or vases at those 

 prices, and regret the want of them, for they are really 

 handsome ornaments. I need scarcely say anything to 

 you about cut-flfjwer vases. There are few homes 

 without a small vase or two for holding cut flowers. 

 They are so easily obtained that it is a pity to see a 

 lovely bouquet stuck into a mug or tea-cup for want of 

 one. Cut-flower vases of glass are how greatly used in 

 dinner-table and drawing-room decorations. They 

 II are generally trumpet-shaped, and made in many 



different styles. The common trumpet glasses are 

 very useful for cut flowers on any occasion. Hyacinth 

 glasses are elegant ornaments when filled with nicely 

 grown hyacinth bulbs in flower. The common glass 

 ones are very cheap; a more elegant and expensive 

 style has lately come into great repute made of 

 coloured glass or Etruscan ware. You will find it 

 very interesting to grow, perhaps, a couple of hya- 

 cinths in glasses. Plants in a room should have orna- 

 mental covers for the pots ; you can purchase expansive 



