Ask for them." They
proved to be very pretty and were put up in the hall and the outside
enclosure and on the lawn.
"There are certain kinds of flowers that should always be kept low,"
explained Mrs. Smith as they all sorted over the cut flowers that had
been contributed. "Flowers that grow directly from the ground like
crocuses or jonquils or daffodils or narcissus--the spring bulbs--should
be set into flat bowls through netting that will hold them upright.
There are bowls sold for this purpose."
"Don't they call them 'pansy bowls'?"
"I have heard them called that. Some of them have a pierced china top;
others have a silver netting. You can make a top for a bowl of any size
by cutting chicken wire to suit your needs."
"I should think a low-growing plant like ageratum would be pretty in a
vase of that sort."
"It would, and pansies, of course, and anemones--windflowers--held
upright by very fine netting and nodding in every current of air as if
they were still in the woods."
"I think I'll make a covering for a glass bowl we have at home,"
declared Ethel Brown, who was diligently snipping ends of stems as she
listened.
"A glass bowl doesn't seem to me suitable," answered her aunt. "Can you
guess why?"
Ethel Brown shook her head with a murmured "No." It was Della who
offered an explanation.
"The stems aren't pretty enough to look at," she suggested.
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