Our homes and their adornments; or, How to build, finish, furnish and adorn a home ... the whole being designed to make happy homes for happy people (1882)
Varney, Almon C. (Almon Clother), b. 1849 · Detroit, J. C.Chilton · leaf 363
328 OUB HOMES AND THEIB ADORNMENTS. Care should be used in watering, as plants are easily drowned out. If during a gentle, warm shower the plantscan be so placed as to receive it, they will be all the betterfor it. They should generally be watered onee> day witha watering-pot,—never poured… … Fig. 75. the temperature of the room. The morning is, perhaps, thebest time for watering, and it never should be done whilethe sun shines upon the plants. Plants that have flowered all the summer cannot be ex-pected to continue the process during the winter, as theymust have a period of rest before…
Architecture, Domestic · Interior decoration · Home Economics
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