DECORATIONS 



cured vnih a few plants by concentrating them 

 at this point. 



Use your largest plants on the hearth. 

 Place a tall one at one side to extend the green- 

 ery up to the mantel shelf. Then a vine to run 

 across above the glass and droop at the op- 

 posite side. In this way you convey an im- 

 pression of plants climbing from the hearth 

 to the upper part of the mantel, on one side, 

 crossing it, and dropping from that point as 

 vines naturally would if growing there. At the 

 place where the tall plant meets the pot con- 

 taining the vine a flowering plant can be used 

 effectively, or a few cut flowers can be made 

 to give color to a scheme that might lack bright- 

 ness without them. 



If you have two rooms opening into each 

 other with wide doors or an archway, and tall 

 plants, hke Palms, Ficus, or Abutilons are 

 at your disposal, a very pleasing effect can be 

 easily obtained by grouping these plants in the 

 corners, on each side, and placing sofas, daven- 

 ports, or something of that kind in front of 

 them. A table can be used, if you have noth- 

 ing better. If the plants are not tall enough 

 to give the effect you have In mind elevate 

 them on boxes or stands, but be careful not to 



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