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and can be trained in any form you wish. A very simple contri- 
vance is a copper wire twisted to form a ring at one end large 
enough to hold the pot just below the rim, with a loop at the other 
end for hanging it on a nail. 
Yases, trumpet glasses, and stands, in terra-cotta, china, and 
glass, of numerous designs, are extensively used for the decoration 
of dinner-tables, rooms, halls, stair-landings, and passages. When 
used in the decoration of halls or vestibules, cut-flower vases should 
be larger in size and different iu shape from those used in the 
decoration of rooms or dinner-tables; many flo.vers that would 
have too clumsy an appearance in a drawing-room vase will suit a 
vestibule vase to perfection, for a bolder arrangement of details 
must be aimed at with them to have a good effect. 
Of the many varieties of stands for cut flowers in use, there are 
four that do not intercept the view, are easy to fit up, and not ex- 
pensive to purchase. They are as follows: — The true Marchian ; 
the Marchian, with trumpet and top tazza ; a high, slender trumpet, 
with three curved trumpets branching from it ; and a large tazza, 
with single trumpet rising out of the centre. These shapes, when 
fitted up lightly, look very effective. When going to arrange a 
stand, see that the glass is well polished, for half the effect depends 
on the brightness and glitter of the crystal, which sets off flowers 
to greater advantage than any other material. To keep glass clean 
it should be washed with nothing but cold water. 
It is not necessary that the cut flowers used for decoration 
should be rare or costly ; lovely arrangements can be got up with 
the hardy garden or common wild flowers, associated with wild 
ferns, grasses, and many other simple objects of the garden, wood, 
or field, when the rarer stove and greenhouse flowers are unattain- 
able. As an example of this, we give a description of the drawing- 
room stands to which the first, second, and third prizes were 
awarded at a provincial show of the Royal Horticultural Society, 
held at Birmingham. The flowers used in the first prize arrange- 
ment were white water-lilies, white sweet peas, blue corn-flowers, 
white rodanthe, ferns, and wild grasses. That of the second prize 
consisted of pink cactus flowers, white water-lilies, pink aud white 
rodanthe, ferns, and grasses. The third prize consisted of white 
water-lilies, white rodanthe, and oats. Many of the vases to which 
no prizes were awarded contained orchids and other choice and 
costly flowers. 
I may also notice another vase composed wholly of wild flowers, 
to which was awarded the first prize, in the class for wild flowers 
arranged for effect, at the Exhibition of the Tunbridge Wells 
Horticultural Society. The vase itself resembled a Marchian one 
in form, and each tazza and trumpet was filled with Dog-roses, blue 
Forget-me-nots, brown-tinted sprays of 0 ih leaves, and British ferns ; 
in each tie the flowers and foliage were most charmingly intermixed. 
In addition to those just named in the trumpet was placed a long 
trailing spray of white Convolvulus, which drooped down and was 
twined in a most graceful manner. This would make a good centre- 
piece for the dinner-table, as well as a drawing-room vase. 
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