WINDOW BY THE
GARDENING.—NO.
III.
“llOIt-TlCULTUR-AL EDITOR.”
PAUSE! WAR! PLOWZR VASL
WE, this month, introduce to our readers seve— ral representations of pendent. flower-baskets, which class of room ornaments has recently come much into vogue. One illustration repre sents a. suspending vase on a large scale, of the modern Palissy wore; the ground of which is
{additions on the flat surface, would be in bad ‘Qtaste, when ~brought. into immediatejuxta-posi gtion with real flowers. 'i The other engravings are specimens of cheaper lkinds of suspending vases. ThOSO of glass are
i very elegant, and at the same time inexpensive. g The one from which our engraving is taken, was en rich, but at the same time delicate turquoise 3 blue, semi-opaque, with the snake-like ornament iabout the pendent, of a pale, pearly white, and galso semi-opaque. There aro also very pretty Evases of red terra cotta; and still counn‘oncr fiones, of the porous material of ordinary flower é pots. Some of these terra cotta vases are made iwith circular apertures in the sides; in which lopenings, roots of the weeping isolepis gracilis
- are planted, producing a very pleasing et'l‘eet,
GLASS fbOWER VASE. sand nearly concealing the common material of white, relieved with the judicious and sparing l the vase. These suspended baskets, however rich in de addition of a few rich colors The patterns of 1‘n-n these vases should invariably be more or less , tail, should always be light and graceful in de geometrical, or at all events a. compound of con §sign. a massive character being entirely unsuited It. should be vcntionalized ornament, as any attempt at imi ito their position and purpose. tative flowers either in relief or in painted remembered that the adaptation of dfie7sign to
