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 groT\dng 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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