Instead of flowers, try decorating your holiday table with fruit

Each era has had its excesses, and during the Victorian days, horticultural decoration topped the list. Jennifer Davies, in her book "The Victorian Kitchen Garden," describes the art of "dressing" a formal dining table, as practiced by an estate's head gardener.No effort was spared to bring the outdoors in. Ripe dessert fruits were offered up in grottoes of palm and fern. A grape-laden vine might ascend from the [...]