128 FLORAL DESIGNS. 
Screens and panels are often desirable to shut off or screen some 
undesirable object. vScreeus may be of ivy with designs in flowers — for 
instance, a vase against a panel, as illustrated on page 97. I use ivies 
trained on square flat wire trellises, some four feet high : these are very 
useful, as they can be used as trellises or panels, or to form a hedge or 
background for effective grouping. 
A three-panel screen was formed of white pansies, with spray of Jean 
Liabaud roses for the first panel ; blue pansies, with cluster of pink moss 
roses and peach blossoms for the second ; and yellow pansies, with Paul 
Neyron roses and asparagus tenuissimus for the third. 
Where rooms are small and space limited, tall palms may be placed in 
corners, and with the ivy plant screen will take up but little room. Lat- 
tice work of smilax, ivy or flowers, can be used in the upper part of door- 
ways with or without curtains of smilax below. 
EFFECTS WITH ICE. 
In summer decorations ice can be used to good advantage ; a square 
crystal block placed where the water can drain off, and surrounded by 
palms, ferns or flowers, produces a cooling sensation w T hen a da}- is close 
and warm. Or, it can be ice in the centre of a little pool, with water 
lilies, ferns, daisies and violets growing on the surrounding bank. A 
pyramid of ice, with colored lights inside, forms a pretty fairy grotto, 
which should have tall-2;rowin«; ferns surrounding; it. 
