. The parks, promenades, & gardens of Paris, described and considered in relation to the wants of our own cities, and the public and private gardens. Gardens; Parks. THE PLANT DECORATION OE APARTMENTS. 263 since the 'Lady Ferns' and 'Venus's Hair' appeared; and that you could not help yourself looking now and then at the said ' Venus's Hair/ and agreeing that nature's real beauties were somewhat superior to the ghastly woollen caricatures which they hare ; Perns, to be sure, have been a great help and a great attraction; but they are by no means so readily grown in rooms as
. The parks, promenades, & gardens of Paris, described and considered in relation to the wants of our own cities, and the public and private gardens. Gardens; Parks. THE PLANT DECORATION OE APARTMENTS. 263 since the 'Lady Ferns' and 'Venus's Hair' appeared; and that you could not help yourself looking now and then at the said ' Venus's Hair/ and agreeing that nature's real beauties were somewhat superior to the ghastly woollen caricatures which they hare ; Perns, to be sure, have been a great help and a great attraction; but they are by no means so readily grown in rooms as some things to be presently mentioned; nor are they supreme as regards verdure and elegance. By a combination of all the plants suitable for this purpose, we Fig. 101. may not only find very agreeable in- door employment, but create the highest kind of or- nament and inte- rest in the house at all seasons. Not only are we deficient as regards the better kinds of plant ornament in houses, but also in large gardens— with far greater means of readily developing it than occur on the Con- tinent. Merely displaying a few popular or showy sub- jects is not plant decoration in any high sense ! Rooms are often overcrowded with ornaments, many of them exact representations of natural objects; but in the case of the plants we may, without inconvenience, enjoy and pre- serve the living natural objects themselves. Those we em- ploy for this purpose now are mostly of a fleeting character, and such as cannot be preserved in health for any length of time in living rooms. But if in addition to the best of these we select handsome-leaved plants of a leathery tex-. Maranta Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935. London, J. Murray
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