_For the Table Book._
Dear Sir,--In my wanderings through the metropolis at this season, I
observe an agreeable and refreshing novelty, an ingenious contrivance to
make mustard and cress seeds grow in pleasant forms over vessels and
basketwork, covered on their exterior with wet flannel, wherein the
seeds are deposited, and take root and grow, to adorn the table or
recess. The most curious which struck me, consisted of a “hedgehog”--a
doll’s head looking out of its vernally-growing clothes--a “Jack in the
green”--a Dutch cheese in “a bower”--“Paul Pry”--and “Pompey’s pillar.”
If greengrocers proceed in these devices, their ingenuity may suggest a
rivalry of signs of a more lasting nature, suitable to the shop windows
of other tradesmen.
Yours, truly,