OCR Text |
Show I-'lorul X'liMUfonf,. The chrysanthemum is in the ascendant, ascend-ant, and very soon every house, flat or room will bo illumined by its splendid bloom. This is one of the effects of taking tak-ing Japanese art into our bosom. We havo learned tho decorative lesson and profited, for it would seem a flowerless autumn wero we to be deprived now of this perfect bit of natural decoration. And another floral idea has also arrived from Japan, one which bids fair to rival tho more fragile creations of the greenhouse. green-house. Dwarfed trees, strange, Etunted, gnomo like plants, set in tho artistic porcelain pots of that land of art and invention, will be used for dinner table and house decoration. Already they aro employing them in London houses, and no doubt in time they will appear here, superseding the familiar rubber plants and palm, and giving that one note of vernal oddity so prized by tho tasteful owner of a well coiCEOstd room. |