Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1913 — Basket Flower Holders. [ARTICLE]

Basket Flower Holders.

Baskets of light’ enameled wicker or dark splints are very much used as flower holders. They are employed for cut flowers, or as a “jardiniere” to cover the pot of a growing plant. An inner receptacle in tin holds the eartty for the growing plant. This must be well perforated for drainage, the tin being removed from the basks for the daily watering and draining. Kor cut flowers the basket must of course contain an improvised holder for water, and thus a basket of flowers becomes a beautiful decoration for the home dining table, for church purposes, or for the flower booth at the bazaar. A basket woven in simple flowerpot shape into which an ordinary flower pot is slipped is pretty to stand on tbe living room table through the winter, where the green of a fern, or tbe bright tint of a flowering plant lightens the room.