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TERRA-COTTA GARDEN FURNITURE
and is so firmly fastened to the door that no
amount of motion can dislodge it or its
floral burden.
  The flower holder at the front door is
placed there especially for casual visitors,
but inside the house blossoms are a delight
for the family and for the house guest, who
appreciates the fresh beauty and hospitality
of flowers as well as material comforts. If
a hostess has flowers in her garden she
need not regret a guest room that is per-
haps more sparely    furnished  than  she
wishes, for a cluster of posies on the table,
or a wall pocket containing a few blossoms
and a trailing vine or two, suspended from
the picture molding near the dresser or
from the side light, will attract and hold the
guest's attention more than any amount of
more usual and less personal furnishings.
Especially lovely is the flower holder that
can be fastened at one side of the mirror,
the blossoms leaning over just a trifle and
reflecting in the glass. Here again basketry
makes dainty and inexpensive flower recep-
tacles. The natural colored baskets are
generally the most beautiful, but they can
be painted white or gilded when such deco-
ration is suited to the room furnishings.
Bowls and vases of plain glass are always
lovely, for there is nothing about these
simple holders to detract from the beauty
of the flowers. And always the holder
should be secondary to the flowers.
   In selecting the flowers for the various
rooms it goes without saying that one
should keep in mind the question of color
harmony, and not mar the beauty of fur-
nishings and flowers alike by combining
hues which, though lovely in themselves,
would be disastrous to each other in close
proximity. But, after all, there is little
danger on this score, for most of nature's
colorings are so mellow and so full of
varied tints that they will harmonize with
almost any decorative scheme.
  When the season of flowers is over, or
when one cannot get many from the gar-
den or the country around, one can always
fall back on the friendly greenery of grow-
ing ferns, whose delicacy of form and shad-
ing is just as wonderful in its own way as
that of the more colorful and varied blos-
soms. And here again basketry will be
found both useful and picturesque for the
holders, the woven strands reminding one
of the brown twigs and interlaced roots of
the woodland from whose native shade the
ferns have come to gladden our dwellings.
TERRA-COTTA GARDEN FUR-
NITURE
  (The illustrations used in this article were fur-
  nished us by the Galloway Terra-Cotta Com-
pany.)
ITH             the reawakening   interest
          throughout our land in nature,
          gardens and outdoor life, we
          may expect to find increased
activity among the makers of garden furni-
ture. And recently there was brought to
       A  i-K-LUUIA JAR "UIR U(ULAW1Z, kLAINT.
our attention such a charming collection of
this work that we were glad to welcome it
to the pages of our magazine.
A DORIC SUN DIAL OF SIMPLE, GOOD PROPORTIONS.
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