Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1875 — Leaf Decoration of Fruit. [ARTICLE]

Leaf Decoration of Fruit.

A writer in the Home Journal says: That the beauty of a dish of fruit is enhanced by a dressing of foliage or flowers, no matter how fine the fruit itself may be, few will deny. Much of the effect depends on the foliage or flowers harmonizing in color with the fruit, and so just as mnch forethought should be given in the arranging and decorating of a dish of fruit as in the selecting of flowers to arrange in a vase. As a rule to be observed as far as possible the foliage and the fruit should contrast in color; therefore, for dark-colored fruit light-tinted foliage should be used, and for light-colored fruit dark fotthge. For the decoration of black grapes, plums or fruits of a like tint nothing is mpre effective than leaves and small sprigs of the white variegated maple (Acer negundo fol. var.), but the lightest-colored leaves should be selected, and some are attainable perfectly white. These leaves also look well with strawberries and other scarlet fruits; the lightshaded leaves of the different varieties of ivies, too, are most useful also, and where the maple is not obtainable will be found an excellent substitute. Some of the ivy can be obtained quite white, others straw-colored, according to the silver or golden variety to which they belong. The young brown shoots of the oak are very pretty for light-colored fruits, as are also those of the copper beech. The leaves of the whortleberry, too, when they begin to change their tints, but they are not in perfection till much later on in the season. The young reddish or bronzy shoots of the rose can also he well worked in. Where obtainable of a good color,, for the decoration of a dish of white cur. rants, there is nothing handsomer than the sprays of the wild geranium. In some places the foliage of this plant can be got of a vivid crimson. For instance, about Dartmouth it grows on the banks and on old walls, with its foliage almost scarlet, and this, when mixed with either very dark or very light colored leaves of some other plant, such as some of those enumerated above, has a most charming effect.

—A good test for gold or silver is a piece of lunar caustic, fixed with a pointed stick of wood. Slightly wet the metal to be tested and rub it gently with the caustic. If gold or silver the mark will be faint; but if an inferior metal it will be quite black. —Walking horse-races have come into usage at Western fairs. It is urged, in favor of such contests, that horses able to walk at the rate of four or five miles an hour are of more value to fanners, for farm-work, than those that can trot a mile in 2:20. The first grain elevator south of the Ohio River has just; been erected at Louisville.

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