Central heating is not good for flowers, and people who live in cen-traily heated flats are using other means of table decoration. One of these methods consists of grapes and peaches made of composition and then coloured and glazed. Sometimes different colours are used, but the most amusing way of dealing with them is to have them all the same colour in one of the bronze greens or tomato scarlets or, again, in any of the off-whites. The grapes, peaches, and apples are made realise tically, and the grape stems are made of wire covered with the composition and painted, so that they bend where necessary. This enables them to fit into the big white bow! in which they are placed, together with any other kind of fruit in the same convention.
The bowl is piled up high, and in addition perhaps a bunch of grapes or on apple with a leaf attached is left on the table. Where off-white fruit is used a great deal of colour can be introduced into the table-mats or candles.
Other people prefer the fruit made of the clearest possible glass. There are apples t be found which are simply a lump of crystalline glass.
these. with a bunch of grapes being so many cryst:] drops, look and pick up the reflections the light. Here and there these glass fruits are coloured or partly so.
Ruby reds and deep blues are used for parts of them. Where they are set in a glass container on a polished table they produce a lovely effect Many people are collecting glass and composition fruits for the middles of their tables, which they can vary according to their desire for e.
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