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| | Living - The Cincinnati Post |
 | | Choosing what objects to place upon a mantel causes a rift between two sets of humans, those who favor symmetry and those who think placing identical pairs of things (vases, candlesticks, whatever) on both ends of a mantel to create a balance of equals is too dull to be endured. |
 | | This latter group prefers to adorn their mantels asymmetrically, a trickier proposition because the eye always demands some sort of balance, even if the objects on either end of a mantel are disparate. |
 | | Recently, a panel of Dutch experts met to decide which bulbs, in their opinion, were the best perennial performers for the widest range of growing conditions in the U.S. On the list is Tulipa "Orange Emperor," the tulip that Oprah Winfrey once declared her favorite. |
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