... twelve heavy silver meat-dishes and covers, eight entree-dishes, vegetable-dishes, and revolving breakfast-dishes, salvers, asparagus- dishes, bread-baskets, menu-stands, flower-vases, cruets, sauce-boats, ice-pails, and champagne-holders, which are all beautiful ...

... of thefr flowers wearied her because she did not kno\ 9 many. y Does not it seem curious Now I cow-V hours making a new asparagus bed, or prunin garden is at all times a source of infinite delig know you find it so too, though you always we to seek spring ...

... Enmval pi,j AfrL x., u _ *122 '2rd^S- £Vi S lined Velvet CaU, complete, £16 10 o Ca^bPt^pLhiof Pp,n Brothers' New Design Asparagus Dish, with Well for Sauce, bemers to Mate- 140 *00 SoLc Sihex .5 0 0 Fu£ Knaves aad Fork*, Electro-Plated Blades, Ivory Hapdles ...

... red and white satin ribbon, the mud-guards with moss, the forks with double red geraniums, with a hood composed of smilax, asparagus fronds, guelder-roses, white peonies, gladioli, and syringa. There was cycle hockey, tilting at the ring, tent-pegging, ...

... simply could not go away without prospecting further. I spied out first a very pretty and useful novelty in the shape of an asparagus dish in Prince's Plate, with a curved cradle for the vegetable to rest on, while at each side was a prettily shaped sauce-boat ...

... the sport, and that if Queen Mab, in a moment of inherited weakness, ever toyed overmuch with a sparrow, there was some asparagus-bed or cucumber-frame handy to divert the claims of appetite. One last word, and it is a saddening one. Queen Mab's daughter ...

... particulars of agri culture and kitchen gardening on his Worcestershire estate. The season, he said, had been a good one lor asparagus, but early frosts had reduced the yield ot strawberries very much. Plums were a fair show, an important matter in all the ...

... Within the building the scene was remarkable. Three Gothic arches, made of lilies-of- the-vallev and the feathery spray of asparagus fern, spanned the aisle between the entrance-porch and the altar, hundreds of yards of fragrant, lovely roses swung from ...

... The tables too were prettily decorated with silver centre pieces frilled with pink roses and red carnations mingled with asparagus, fern fronds, and festooned with smilax. There were stands all round con sisting of three-cornered wired frames on which ...

... fighting cocks, and even allusions to gastronomic idiosyncrasies, such as sleeve links in the form of miniature bundles of asparagus, and others having on one side a duck in enamel, and on the other a green pen. Indeed, our choice was embarrassed only by ...

... choose between them. I have sug gested to my friend the brass and crystal with Roman hyacinths and poinsettias mingled with asparagus fein. I think a table lighted in this fashion can give points to any other illuminant for beauty and beat them. A soldier ...

... of the Irish nation was actually asked to pay in advance. Among the English colony in Paris he is known as the piece of asparagus dipped1 in ink. A Britisher, who has been twice detained in what lie calls Paul Ivruger's prison-houses of detention as ...