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By NANCY SECRET
Extension Afent
As the holiday season approaches, you will find many creative uses ' for natural materials in your
6&orating. Making wreaths and door swags has become part of the traditional evening for many families.
For indoor decoration, the best greenery are pines, firs, and cedars. Both hemlock and spruces are excellent for exterior wreaths, but when
brought into a warm building may lose their needles within a week. Boxwood, yews, and holly also provide decorative greenery.
The Evergreen Ball is an unusual use for short sprigs of evergreen. First, shape a 4 to 6-inch ball of moistened sphagnum moss firmly, but not too solidly, and tie it with wire or string, or wrap in chicken wire. Then fasten a long piece of wire to the ball so that it can be suspended from a chandelier, doorway, or window.
After the base is prepared, cut small sprays of greenery 5 to 6 inches long and sharpen their ends. Then insert the sprays into the moss until the entire surface is covered. Make the evergreen sprays form an even, well-rounded ball. As a final decorative touch, a many-looped bow of red ribbon, or a number of cones or small bells, may be wired to a small sharpened stick and inserted.
A miniature Christmas tree can be made in a similar manner from a cone of chicken wire filled with slightly moistened sphagnum or wood moss. Single sprays of evergreen, 4 to 6 inches long, are then inserted firmly into the moss base to outline a very bushy miniature tree.
They can be decorated in the traditional way, but a novel idea is to use cellophane-wrapped multicolored lollipops: Insert them
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