GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS 
foliage plants are sure to be welcomed, for with 
care they will last for years, and improve in size 
and beauty. 
The growing fad for winter-blooming bulbs af- 
fords another opportunity for pleasing. If you 
did not start in time to grow to flower yourself, 
give your friend one of the new flat lily bowls, pro- 
curable from fifty cents up, and with it a collection 
of bulbs for succession of bloom. These may be 
started in any kind of dishes with pebbles and 
water, set in a cool, dark place until the roots start, 
and then brought out to the light as desired. With 
narcissi at three cents each, Chinese lilies at ten 
cents, and fine hyacinths up to twenty cents, for 
named varieties, a dollar’s worth will keep her in 
flowers for the rest of the winter. 
Pretty little stem holders, made in pottery leaves, 
mushrooms, frogs, etc., cost only from forty cents to 
fifty cents, and will be nice to use in the bowl after- 
ward, for holding any kind of cut flowers. We are 
adopting more and more the Japanese method of 
displaying a few choice specimens artistically, and 
assuredly this way they do show up to better ad- 
vantage. Many new vases are displayed for the 
purpose. A charming Japanese yellow glaze, ten 
in. high, with a brown wicker cover, I saw for only 
a dollar and a quarter, while the graceful Japanese 
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