32 Rustic Adornments . 
The doors stand open (for we are within gates at some distance from 
the road), and through them, as we enter, streams a welcoming per¬ 
fume of many flowers. A magnolia bud and blossom, displayed only with 
its own foliage in an old china bowl on the hall table, partly accounts for this 
delicious fragrance; but there is also a delicate whiff of burnt almonds, which 
must come from 
vase, of pure and 
standing eighteen 
ground, which 
bouquet of 
(,Spiraea ulmaria ), 
fronds of Lady 
felix-fo&mina ), and 
sprays of wild 
giving an effect 
gance t o the 
Single palms and 
are also used 
ferns are only 
corners (for the 
where the draught 
them ; and we 
are English ferns, 
varieties now in- 
of our leading 
Entering the 
walls and drapery 
a grey-green tint) 
a floral bower, 
hidden by rich 
and in front of these a group of 
tall stems of Lilium speciosum var. 
blooms and the soft clear pink, crimson-flecked 
the tall majolica 
simple shape, 
inches from the 
holds a glorious 
meadowsweet 
s u r rounded b y 
fern (Athyrium 
surmounted by 
oats and grasses, 
of lace-like ele- 
foamy mas s. 
specimen ferns 
here, but the 
in the further 
hall is broad), 
does not hurt 
observe that they 
of the improved 
troduced by some 
fern-growers, 
drawing-room, the 
of which are of 
we are, indeed, in 
The fire-place is 
marone curtains, 
foliage plants and ferns surround the 
Kroetzeri , with their lovely silver 
blossoms of Lilium 
A CORNER ORNAMENT OF GRASSES. 
speciosum and its varieties. A royal group it is, a feast of perfect form ; and 
from the mantel-board above these hangs a delicate spray of white passion 
flower (Constance Elliot) on one side, while the other is occupied by a basket 
of roses, fresh from the garden. A simpler, but probably quite as effective, 
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