266 CARTERS GARDEN POTTERY. 
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The Hambro' Flower Vase — Carters New Design. 
Internal dimensions, 33 in. long, 12 in. wide, 12 in. deep. External dimensions, 39 in. long, 18 in. wide. 
Total height, 25 inches. 
Price £4 4 0 
The Hambro’ Fi.ower Vase will find acceptance with all worshippers of “ The Garden Beautiful.” It is 
a fitting ornament on the terrace, or where it can be admired from the house, when filled with flowering plants 
in summer and ornamental evergreens in the winter, and be a perpetual delight all the year round. 
As Garden Pottery is becoming more popular, it should be designed to give pleasure to the possessor in that 
the design should be graceful, simple, and chaste, and at the same time be constructed on lines which appeal to 
every practical gardener as a means of furthering the cultivation of plants therein. 
Many of the designs on the market at present are admirable specimens of manufacturers’ failures in the 
perception of the beautiful in art in combination with utility. Recognising this, we present the Hambro’ Vase 
as a real attempt to solve the difficulty of introducing a vase which, even when empty, is a noble and beautiful 
ornament, but when filled with suitable plants displays its usefulness by reason of its containing sufficient soil in 
which plants can nourish, and commending itself as an absolute necessity for the decoration of every garden. 
. lost old gardens are rich in vases and statuary. The presence of vases, judiciously placed, is a certain 
means ol relieving the objectionable uniformity which is so strikingly evident with the usual system of “ bedding 
out practised m flower gardens and pleasure grounds. This was forcibly impressed by a supplementary 
illustration in the Gardeners' Chronicle of a flower garden personally known to us, and knowing the grand effect 
produced in this and many other gardens, we hoped we might induce our clients to impart a similar picturesque- 
ness to their gardens by placing suitable vases which would be permanent ornaments, whether their establishments 
are considerable or small in extent. 
How admirable a large vase looks at the termination of a long walk ; at the corners of oblong or square beds ; 
on the grass by the side of walks ; in the centre of cross-walks ; on the terrace ; on low walls ; and many other 
situations, where a chaste vase on a suitable pedestal would impart a dignity to the whole surroundings. 
We have other designs in preparation, notably our Circular Vine Pattern Vase, in three sizes, viz., 14 inches 
io inches, and 24 inches in diameter, with Pedestals to match, varying 2 feet to 5 feet high. 
Estimates supplied for pottery from clients’ own designs. 
Our Photographic Album of Garden Pottery, Sundials, Sundial Pedestals, &c., is at the disposal of intending 
purchasers, and will be posted on request. 
y, CARRIAGE AND PACKING EXTRA. 
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