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Flowers aside, unusual textures and metallic references made a noticeable appearance in this year's designs. A vibrant orange quilted cloth covered the Table that Stephen Elrod created for Lee Jofa. Silver fur showed up on the table, chair covers, and napkin rings for the Chronicles of Narnia-inspired Table by Celerie Kemble, Lela Rose, and Bronson van Wyck. An iridescent green -gold green-gold overlay blanketed the Table designed by Healing Barsanti; it was embellished with biomorphic shapes stitched out of golden thread (which befit the centerpiece that integrated green orchids and pearlescent shells strung on golden wire). Artist Michele Oka Doner employed an array of her own work-heavily textured silver vessels that held large green leaves and green orchids. Scads of the flowers will be on view to the public when the Orchid Show opens at the garden on February 25;

Transparency and sheerness were dominant characteristics, but there was always a slight tint, green or yellow being most frequent. Translucent colored glass, notably green and brown, was also made. The present iridescent green -gold quality of Roman glass has resulted from its being buried for centuries. Originally the glass was clear, and thin as a chemist's test tube. Syrian and Alexandrian Glassmakers.— Throughout the Roman period there were two groups of glassblowers, the Syrian and the Alexandrian, each adhering to distinctive characteristics of workmanship and types of pieces.

Your passport is green gold—and more. It is one of the world's most eagerly desired treasures of printing, Once you get it, and are using it in Europe, you certainly wouldn't want to sell it for anything like its weight in gold. I've weighed mine on letter • scales and find it would be worth, as gold, about $56, whereas it cost me only $10. There are plenty of cases where American passports have been sold—and this is, of course, a very serious criminal offense—for a thousand dollars and up to desperate refugees from Hitlerian or Communist or starving countries of Europe.