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 385
work; but it is well to state that the pots for windowplants should be filled to the depth of one or more incheswith charcoal, to assist in drainage and to keep the soil sweet. [327] 328 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. Care should be used in watering, as plants are easily drowned out. If during a… … F,g- 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…
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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