CHAPTER X. 



FERNS IN THE LIVING-ROOM. 



HE design given in PI. 9 is a combination 

 of ideas, having had for its first suggestion 

 ' the plan of a window in Mr. E. C. Gard- 

 ner's very attractive and sensible book, "Home 

 Interiors." Mr. Emerton has added the jardini- 

 ere and appropriate wall-decorations. 



The jardiniere has two compartments, the one 

 next the window being ten inches higher than the 

 one below. In the former it is intended to place 

 the sun-loving plants, — P elargoniimis , Petunias, 

 Fuchsias, Draccenas, &c. ; and in the lower portion, 

 where they will be in partial shade, the ferns are 

 to be grown. The interest of the design does not 

 end with the plants themselves. The frieze around 

 the room has a Camptosorus for the figure, and 

 India palm-leaf fans are fastened along it at in- 

 tervals. The wall-paper is of a morning-glory 

 pattern, with a border of butterflies at the top, 

 and, at the bottom, one of spiders ; for which 



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