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Cold mutton, mashed potatoes, salad

Cheese, celery.

March-Vegetarian Dinners for.

No. 1.

Pea Soup.

Vegetable Pie.

Curried Eggs.

Stewed Rhubarb.

Tapioca Pudding.

No. 2.

Vermicelli Soup.

Vegetable Stew.

Hominy Fritters.

Plum Pudding.

March-Dinner Table Decorations for.

Quite the most troublesome of months in which to provide table decorations, it is yet possible to make a pretty arrangement with the flowers and plants usually at our disposal in March.

Growing plants are the most effective and easiest to form a decoration, and pots of snowdrops are perhaps the prettiest. When required for table purposes these, the fairest of Spring blossoms, may be grown in ornamental pots, or the other pots be placed in vases of some fairly bright colour, such as pink or yellow, and they then will need no setting off by coloured tablecloths.

If they are used picked from the plants they should be placed in low receptacles filled with moss, and no hot-house or other fern should be mingled with them.

Daffodils and many other yellow flowers should be had during March, and their colour is a very pretty one for the dinner table. The daffodils look best in rather tall vases, with a very few of their own leaves.

For trailing on the cloth and for blending with flowers, brown ivy comes in well, and the common green ivy need not be despised for decorative purposes when flowers are scarce.

A pretty pot of fern for a centre decoration put in a smart saque of silk or satin with trails of ivy and tiny vases of snowdrops form a simple and quickly-arranged decoration, when hot-house flowers are not to be had; but a dessert centre of bright colour helps out the flowers, and should be used when colour is needed, the flowers of the season being all of pale tints.

To eke out scanty supplies of flowers, fruit of good colour may be chosen for the table decoration, it being in harmony with the tints of the flowers and foliage.

MARCH, THINGS IN SEASON. 239 March, Things in Season:- Fish. Bream, brill, carp, crabs, crayfish, dory, eels, flounders, haddocks, herrings, lampreys, lobsters, mussels, oysters, pike, plaice, prawns, salmon, shrimps, skate, smelts, soles, sprats, sturgeon, tench, thornback, turbot, whitebait, whiting. veal.