GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS 
now standing on my buffet, beautiful with the vari- 
gated trailing sprays of the Wandering Jew. One 
could not ask for a more satisfying arrangement. 
Enamelled tinware, hand-painted, is new, too, 
and comes in many pottery shapes, though strange 
to say, often at higher prices. Hand-painted china 
butterflies, bees and birds, at from twenty-five cents 
to fifty cents, are among this year’s novelties, and 
look very realistic when applied invisibly with a bit 
of putty to the edge of bowl or vase. Some of the 
birds are painted on wood, life-sized, and mounted 
on long sticks, to be stuck in among growing plants 
or on the tiny trellises used for indoor climbers. 
Many novelties in growing things can be found 
at the florist’s—from the cheapest up to all you feel 
like paying. A dainty new silver fern, big enough 
for a small table, comes in a thumb pot at only ten 
cents. Haworthia is cheap, too, and has the advan- 
tage of being uncommon. More and more -do we 
see of the dwarf Japanese plants, many quite inex- 
pensive. The Japanese cut leaf maple, for example, 
can be bought for seventy-five cents. All are hardy, 
and suitable for small table decorations. 
The new ‘‘air plant,’? or ‘‘Wonder of the 
Orient”? (really an autumn crocus), surprises every 
one not acquainted with it, as it flowers during the 
late fall and early winter, without either soil or 
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