Our homes and their adornments, or, How to build, finish, furnish and adorn a home, containing practical instructions for the building of homes, interior decoration, wood carving, scroll sawing, house painting, window hangings, screens, curtains, window gardening, incidental decorations, decorative-art needle-work, and economic landscape gardening; to which is added a household compendium of new, practical and valuable recipes, the whole being designed to make happy homes for happy people (1883)
Varney, Almon C. (Almon Clother), b. 1849 · Detroit, Mich. : J.C. Chilton · leaf 381
ighteen inchesapart. By the latter process, they will come into bloom 324 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. much earlier, though they do perfectly well sown in openground. Be careful not to cover the small seeds too deep;they like a sandy loam. Tender perennial; one and a halffeet high.… … Fig. 74- increased by sowing the seed, or by dividing the roots ortubers. They grow readily in ponds or streams of shallowwater having muddy bottoms, and can be grown in aqua-riums, tubs or tanks, in the house, if there be sufficient mudat the bottom, and the seeds or roots be kept…
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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