GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS 
yellow plum blossom shown with it at thirty-five 
cents a spray, was a delight to the eye. A slender 
ground glass vase in a plated cut silver holder was 
only twenty-five cents, while the Sheffield plate bud 
vase was but fifty cents. These could be duplicated 
in cut glass and sterling silver at almost any price 
one wished to pay. 
Venetian glass is quite fashionable, and can be 
had in all colors—red, blue, green, yellow and 
black, and while expensive, has been imitated in 
domestic ware at reasonable prices. Some of the 
new pottery bowls come in unusual shapes, in white, 
gray, green, blue, and many are small enough for 
a single bulb. A lover of the narcissus myself, I 
am ‘delighted with the idea of bringing out my 
paper whites one at a time, so as to keep a lovely 
gray-green piece in use all winter. One of my 
friends, on the other hand, is growing hers in 
groups of half-a-dozen, the warm brown of the bulbs 
harmonizing most artistically with her delicately 
colored stones in a brown wicker-covered Japanese 
glazed dish. 
This brown Japanese wicker, by the way, is most 
decorative, and can be found in various kinds of 
baskets, metal-lined, for cut flowers or plants of 
that grow in water,—some as low as ten cents 
apiece. A tall-handled basket of this kind is 
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