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 J apanese 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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