FLOWER TABLES.
- :Plower .tables ; aro enjoying well doserved popularity' -'(says a: Melbourne' paper). ; The old method of. filling vases, jugs, and bowls with" blossoms and: distributing them ;about 'the room had< many disadvantages. Only.horo iuid there could a vaso'.onjoy absoluto. security, while the general.' effect of tho flowers was frequently lost. Tho flower table was really designed to take tho plaeo Of the window box. Growing plants of all sorts are groupod on a table placed before or between :,windows. The idea of.supplementing the growing, plants with vases or.: do wis .of. cut flowers is finding favour. The vivid mass of colour has a wondorful effect, in some rooms, • especially' when sunlight;, from' the windows falls on the table. The fitting of the table top with a zinc cover, with a half-inch rim, makes the watering of both plants and cut flowers a- much mora satisfactory, thing'than it. once was. "
'■Mr. Chatters—"Here is an article, on 'What One Woman Thinks.' It occupies a quarter of a column." Mrs. Chatters—"What of it?" Mr. Chatters—"l wa3 -wondering how:large a newspaper would be required to print what one woman says." . ' % ' :
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 650, 29 October 1909, Page 4
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187FLOWER TABLES. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 650, 29 October 1909, Page 4
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