House and Garden 
CHARMING BASKETS OF FLOWERS FURNISHING THE WINDOWS OF A TENEMENT IN THE RUE FEYDEAU 
between the windows of 
his showroom by a 
well-known furniture 
dealer on the Boulevard 
Haussmann. 
In the establishment 
of the famous Paquin, 
in the Rue de la Paix, a 
continuous garland of 
flowers has been clev¬ 
erly devised by the in¬ 
genious florist. 
In the case of the dis¬ 
play of the Boue Sisters, 
marguerites, carnations, 
pinks and roses mask 
the sills of the windows, 
while the architraves 
above are charmingly 
framed in by the grace¬ 
ful sprays of the ampe- 
lopsis. 
The balconies of the 
aristocratic apartment 
in the Place Vendome 
are much more soberly 
decorated, doubtless in 
harmony with the sev¬ 
erer lines of the archi¬ 
tectural composition. 
But it was reserved 
for the competitors in the second class—the house¬ 
holders of restricted means—to furnish the greatest 
surprise and pleasure to the jury of award, for it was 
here that the most successful efforts were made and, 
as the jury unanimously declared, the most original. 
One cannot help wondering how many Parisian 
workingmen know, as 
did these prize winners, 
that for a few sous it 
is possible to so gaily 
decorate a modest 
home with a little ivy, a 
few sweet peas, and 
some Virginia creeper. 
The combined effect 
of the three balconies in 
an old house in the Rue 
du Temple bears elo¬ 
quent witness that such 
knowledge does exist in 
Paris. 
This hanging garden, 
whose gay colors in the 
velvety corollas form 
such a beautiful con¬ 
trast with the graceful 
foliage of the vines, 
brought to these hum¬ 
ble artisans the highest 
co m m en d a tion of the 
jury. And in photo¬ 
graphing them for 
House and Garden 
I have thought that the 
authors of this so suc¬ 
cessful effort well de¬ 
serve to be immortalized 
in the pages of this well-known magazine. So they 
may be seen at their windows surrounded by their 
handiwork, and the genuine pleasure which they 
feel about the whole affair is very clearly depicted 
on their beaming countenances. I be example from 
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BALCONIES OF A HOUSE IN THE RUE DU TEMPLE 
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