the young leaves of copper
beech--or masses of Chinese honeysuckle.
Roses with short stems arranged with their own or _rugosa_ foliage
in blue-and-white dishes that have coarse wire netting fitted
to the top to keep the flowers in place.
White field daisies, clover, and flowering grasses, in a large
bowl or jar.
Mountain laurel with its own leaves, in central jar and parterre
dishes.
Nasturtiums, in cut-glass bowl or vase, with the foliage of
lemon verbena.
Sweet peas of five colours with a fringe of maiden-hair ferns,
the deepest colour in a central jar, with other smaller
bowls at corners, and small ferns laid around mirror and
on cloth between.
Japan lilies, single flowers, in parterre dishes with ivy leaves, and
sprays in central vase.
Balsams arranged in effect of set borders.
Asters in separate colours.
Spotted-leaved pipsissewa of the woods with fern border, in bark-covered
dish.
Red and gold bell meadow lilies, in large jar, with field grasses.
Gladioli--the flowers separated from the stalks and arranged
with various leaves for parterre effect, or stalks laid upon the
cloth with evergreen ferns to separate the places at a
formal meal.
Sweet sultan, in separate colours, in rose bowls, with fragrant
geranium or lemon-verbena foliage.
Shirly poppies with grasses or green rye, in four slender vases
about a larger centrepiece.
Margaret or picotee carnations with mignonette, arranged loosely
in a cut-glass vase or bowl.
Green rye, wheat, or oats with the blue garden cornflower--or
wild blue chickory.
Wild asters with heavy tasselled marsh-grasses.
Goldenrods with purple iron weed and vines of wild white
clematis, arranged about a flat dish of peaches and pears.
All through autumn place your central mirror on a mat made by
laying freshly gathered coloured leaves upon the cloth.
Wallflowers and late pansies.
White Japanese anemonies and ferns.
Grass of Parnassus, ladies tresses, and marsh shield ferns.
Garden chrysanthemums, in blue-and-white jars and bowls, on a
large mat of brown magnolia leaves.
Sprays of yellow witch-hazel flowers and leaves of red oak.
Sprays of coral winterberry, from which leaves have been
removed, and white-pine tassels.
Club-mosses, small evergreen ferns, and partridge vine with its
red berries, in