The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 600
piers are made fast to slips of wood fixed to the wall, and the edgeswhere the curtains join in the middle overlap each other, as in common windowor bed curtains. Nothing is planted against the piers but dahlias during sum-mer, and thus, by leaving these naked, they preserve the architectural…
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