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THE GAEDENEE'S ASSISTANT. 



to the size of the dishes. Fruit and flowers 

 should not be arranged on the same dish. 



Whether fruit should form a portion of the 

 decoration of a dinner-table is questioned hy 

 those who prefer to have their fruit presented 

 to them fresh from a cool room. If it is to be 

 used in the ornamentation of the table, the best 

 way is to arrange a mixed collection of fruit in 

 moss around the bottom of a graceful Palm as 

 the central decoration, and to have a vase of 

 flowers at each end of the table. In this case a 

 duplicate set of fruit should be handed round, 



to save interference with the centre orna- 

 ment. 



If it is preferred to put on two or four dishes 

 of fruit, which is to be eaten after dinner, it is 

 advisable to have prepared previously the same 

 number of low vases of flowers, which should 

 fill the places of the fruit-dishes as soon as the 

 latter have been taken off the table. In this 

 way a change is introduced in the effect of the 

 decorations, instead of leaving so many vacant 

 places in the arrangements, or putting back 

 the disordered dishes of fruit. fj. h.] 



