SCENE OF BEAUTY

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 97, 18 January 1935, Page 4

SCENE OF BEAUTY

Karori Summer Show The midsummer show of the Karori Horticultural Society took place yesterday afternoon at I lie Parish Hall, and was opened by Mr. F. S. Pope, a member of the executive council of the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture. There was a beautiful display of summer blooms, arranged with clever regard for form and colour. From the door, dahlias, zinnias, hydrangeas, begonias, gladioli and oilier lovely blooms covered the walls, and led to a screen of gladioli, in all the most vivid shades, that hedged off tlie stage on each side o.f the centre steps. Bowls and baskets of mixed flowers set on a table across the middle of the hall were especially lovely, a basket of “red hot pokers.” standing high above the

others, drawing the attention from the entrance. A crystal bowl of salmoncoloured primulinus and deep violet hydrangeas also calls for special mention. A bouquet was presented to Mrs. Pope from tlie members of the society, by Mrs. W. M. Page, wife of the president. Mr. and Mrs. Page, assisted by their daughters, the Misses Betty and Eleanor Page, entertained the following visitors at afternoon tea; —Mrs. G. IV. Forbes, Mrs. E. A. Ransom, Mr. and Mrs. Pope, Mrs. Knox Gilmer, Mr. W. Simm, Mr. E. B. Bristow, Dr. and Mrs. Leslie Myers, Mrs. Frank Taylor. Mrs. L. Salek, Mr. and Mrs. F. IV. Fearn, Mrs. R. A. Knight, Mr. R. A. Wright, Mrs. Blinman Bub. Mrs. Frank Hay, .Mrs. Tustin. Mrs. Vickerman. Miss T. Macinfyre. DECORATIVE ’ GLASS Modern Vase Designs No matter whether one spends much or little money on glass accessories for the house, they can be decorative in the extreme. Even flower vases, which have formerly relied more on their contents than on themselves for their decorative effect, are now quite beautiful enough to look at even when they are empty. The most fashionable shape just now is a wide-rimmed rectangular one which is admirably suited to bunched arrangements of flowers and leaves. One most attractive vase in this shape seen at a recent exhibition of modern glass was made in a deep shade of bottle green. Its sole decoration, apart from the beauty of its shape, was a little sketch carried out in opaque . glass of a man riding a horse. I Another modern vase in the same shape had lines and curves etched all • over it to represent the billowing sea waves. At intervals here and there all over the vase were to be seen the darting forms of little fishes swimming in the sea.

Table glasses as well as flower vases are more decorative than ever just now. Some of the very latest sets of wine glasses and tumblers have round bases in coloured glass Black stems and bases are the chief characteristics of one very lovely set designed for the modern table, and another set was in plain white glass throughout. Each glass in this set nad an individual design on it, no bigger than a square two inches down each side. Miniature pictures of animals were chosen for the decorative motif, and one glass had a horse, another a dog, and another a cat, all carried out in opaque glass.

For the centre of the modern diningtable the very latest, arrangement is <a flat glass tray with a shallow pond in the middle of it in which can float the brightly-coloured Leads of flowers. These trays can be had in a variety of lovely colours, and they provide a welcome change from the usual vase or bowl. Corsage Sprays or Orchids, Roses, Violets. Debutantes’ Posies.—Miss Murray, 36 Willis St. Phone 40-541.— Advt.