Rock Garden for the Table
\ NOVEL decoration for Ihe din nor table is found in the everlasting rock gardens, which are becoming so popular with the modern hostess at. Home. The pieces can be built, up, too, into a miniature rock garden, with all the brightness of a real garden, but with the obvious advantage, that in the winter they do not fade, but remain gay and colorful as ever. These 'gardens are being used increasingly for the dining-rooms and conservatories of modern houses, where they arc placed in front of mirrors, and”, When floodlit, are extremely effective. The flowers are authentic reproductions of actual rock plants in bloom, and are made of pieces of rock from the hillside.
Each- stone is handled individually so as to give the flowers thoir natural form and color, which cau be restored at an ytmie by a soaking in cold water.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18551, 10 November 1934, Page 10
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148Rock Garden for the Table Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18551, 10 November 1934, Page 10
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