The rose is the acknowledged queen of our garden, and just as truly is the wild rose the queen of the hedgerows.

Its charming foliage and delicate pink-and-white blossoms render it a thing of beauty indeed.

How very seldom one encounters a wild-rose table decoration, and yet nothing is more beautiful. But the majority of people will not gather wild roses for this purpose, thinking they will drop so quickly. Truly, they soon drop once they are fully blown, but if they are gathered in bud they will open in water, and the effect is charming, whilst upon those whose petals have dropped, the golden stamens still remain, and these are decorative of themselves.

Fill silver bowls with clusters of the roses in all stages, from wee green buds to the full-blown blossoms, and stand each silver bowl on- a fine lace mat that has been lined with pale blue silk.

From bowl to bowl form garlands of small pointed ivy trails, and arrange a circle of the ivy leaves around each mat.

A pretty suggestion for a wild flower table decoration. Wild roses are arranged in white china column vases and separated by thick clusters of honeysuckle laid crosswise on the cloth. If candlesticks are used, they should be of white china

One of our illustrations shows a successful combination of wild roses and honeysuckle. The pinky maize tints of the honeysuckle blend delightfully with the blush pink of the roses, and provide an exquisite perfume that the roses lack.

Four quaint white china column vases are utilised for this table, filled with the roses, and a plentiful supply of their pretty foliage. Then clusters of honeysuckle are arranged crosswise, forming four spaces for the vases.

Where each garland of honeysuckle ends, place a white candlestick with a blush rose pink shade.

Paint a wild rose, or fasten a spray of honeysuckle on each menu. And embroider or paint a wild rose on small squares of silk or satin for the dessert d'oyleys, edging them with buttonhole stitch.

Wild grasses are a valuable aid to table decoration for they produce very graceful effects.

First among these are the drooping oat grasses, with their silky lustre. Use them with flaming scarlet poppies and blue cornflowers, and you have a charming field design.

Or fill vases with oat grasses and big white field daisies, and you have a refreshing scheme for a summer day. Wild grasses play an important part in our other illustration.

The table is round, and a lace-inserted cloth with a scalloped edge is used. A fringe of oat grasses is arranged around the edge of the table, and another nearer the centre; they should lie gracefully and irregularly. Three vases of clear white glass are used, and these are filled lightly with pure white campions and fairy grasses.

The golden-hued bird's-foot trefoil is a dainty wee flower, and is effective either in low vases or massed on the cloth to form a design.

Form a large square of it, arranging the square cornerwise on the centre of the table, and edge the square with a fringe of oat grasses. Rising from this foundation, have several tall specimen vases filled with forget-me-nots. Make a little garland for each vase of the bird's-foot trefoil by attaching little sprays of it to a piece of fine silver wire, and twine one of these round the stem of each vase.

To use the bird's-foot trefoil in low vases, take a set of table bowls, and fill them closely with the trefoil; pale green bowls are very pretty for this. Then, in the trefoil, standing upright, arrange sprays of meadowsweet or cow-parsley. Stand the bowls on the table, and at the base of each arrange a fringe of cow-parsley leaves.

An artistic wild-flower scheme is a combination of pink campions and silver-weed.

A decorative scheme of wild grasses and white campions in clear crystal vases. Two frinjes of wild oats arranged on the tablecloth emphasise the note of delicacy and coolness

The latter has pretty yellow blossoms and silvery foliage. Tall silver vases would be most suitable for this with a silver candelabrum. The vases are attached to the candelabrum with twisted garlands of pink bebe ribbons and narrow silver braid.

A red, white, and blue scheme can easily be arranged with the aid of white field daisies, scarlet poppies, and blue cornflowers.

Purple heather produces very pretty effects by daylight, but is somewhat heavy by artificial light. Fill with it table baskets that have been gilded, and tie the handles with purple bows.

Or mix fronds of golden bracken with the heather, and arrange them in vases.

Blackberry blossom is most effective on a white cloth, for not only is the blossom pretty, but the leaves and manner of their growth are charming also.

Form a lattice-work of the trails, crossing and crossing them on the table, and in each space thus formed stand a vase filled with blackberry blossoms and wild clematis or old man's beard. Blackberry trails look well also against satin ribbon, white, or a pale canary shade. Stretch the ribbon from corner to corner of the table, finishing it at each end with a smart upstanding bow of ribbon.

Place sprays of the blackberry on the ribbon at intervals, and arrange some blossoms and leaves in the upstanding bows.

On the centre place the candelabrum, with white satin shades garlanded with sprays of blackberry leaves.