Rustic Adornments. 
of receptacle. The old-fashioned 
hyacinth glass is nearly extin¬ 
guished, and we now see beautiful 
Etruscan vases, porcelain baskets, 
rustic boxes, and urns employed in 
this department of domestic gar¬ 
dening. All things considered, 
Tye's hyacinth vases are the best, 
both in respect of usefulness and 
elegance, of any among many 
contrivances that have competed 
for popularity. If it were as easy 
to grow the flowers in dwelling- 
rooms as it is to buy suitable 
receptacles for them, we should 
have little to say upon the sub¬ 
ject here; but the ten thousand 
“ directions ” circulated by traders 
in bulbs bring forth little fruit; 
for, as a rule, the examples com¬ 
monly met with are such as can 
only give pain to those who know 
what good cultivation means, both 
as to requirements and results. Bulb-growing in glasses and other elegant 
vessels may be considered a failure always, and the one prevailing cause of 
the failure is insufficiency of light. 
We will not dwell upon the subject, for fear we should dispirit some who 
find in this branch of parlour gardening an agreeable recreation, attended with 
remunerative results. But we will make one remark on our own practice, 
for we do employ bulbs largely in domestic decorations, as well as in the 
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