Beeton's housewife's treasury of domestic information : comprising complete and practical instructions on the house and its furniture, artistic decoration economy, toilet, children, etiquette, domestic and fancy needlework, dressmaking and millinery, and all other household matters : with every requisite direction to secure the comfort, elegance, and prosperity of the home : a companion volume to "Mrs. Beeton's book of household management" : profusely illustrated (1879)
Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary), 1836-1865 · London ; New York : Ward, Lock & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C. · leaf 342
e at window gardening outside and in,and the use of growing and cut flowers as inside ornaments. 443. WINDOW BOXES. Nothing has such a chastening and taste-ful effect on the fronts (and backs) of modern houses (which are usuallyalike intolerably ugly) as the employment of external boxes, filled… … RUSTIC WINDOW BOX. carpentering ability of almost any one. They should be well put to-gether, pitched along the joints inside, and painted externally and in-ternally. The size depends, of course, on breadth of window. Formore ambitious attempts, the front of the box may be covered withencaustic…
Home Economics · Interior decoration
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