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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar81911newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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The chums and their bugler brother bearing upon the scheme of the entertainment, as, for in- stance, a cart full of Easter eggs to be distributed at an Eascer party. Flowers from summer hats may be used for such dec- • orating, or one may buy in- expensive artificial flowers at the ten-cent stores, or make paper ones. Baskets, such as the one carried by the chums, will supply the whole basis for a table decoration, and the fresh, unpainted willow will be found very cool and attractive for a spring luncheon. A large one in the center may hold a basin filled with long-stemmed flowers or branches of small green leaves, or it may be used as a Jack Horner pie. A small one at each plate may be filled with nuts or candy, or oval ice cups of plain white paper may be placed inside and the ices served in them. If one can procure wire frames, or can make them, as one can do occasionally, she has a most helpful addition to her stock of materials. The Easter bell, the Easter egg, the spring bonnet which is used as a Jack Horner
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Doll coachman an dB unny steed a new gas stove, belongs, according to tradition, to the college girl; and the last cup and saucer of a toy tea set may be used, as a warning against spinsterhood, at the plate of an unquestionably popular girl. Toy carts of all sizes, from a three-inch tin affair to a large express wagon, can be used as often as one finds a superfluous number about the house. The wheels and shafts may be wreathed with flowers, and the body filled with them, unless the load to be carried must have direct Centerpiece of hen and chicks. Chicks to be distributed as favors pie, the basket to be filled with flowers, and the beehive may all be made over wire frames. These frames, as sold, are made of stout wire that is not easily crushed out of shape, and they may be kept and used from year to year, as the foundation for Easter decorations. The color and design of the covering may, of course, be changed each year, and the accompanying favors may be so varied as to give the effect of an entirely different arrangement as occasions demand.

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