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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