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RUSTIC BASKETS. [chap. x. 
arranged in a pattern* and I have seen the 
effect of a landscape produced; but it appears 
a kind of decoration that is in very doubtful 
taste* or at least one that it requires great 
judgment to manage properly. 
1. Rustic Box. 
Rustic Baskets .—There are perhaps few 
things over which the alchemy of taste has 
more power than the apparently worthless 
materials of which these elegant ornaments 
are constructed. An old cask* a few pine- 
cones* and a few pieces of rope* combined by 
