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 386
before they can mature. Those WINDOW GARDENING. 329 which are wanted for flowering in winter, must be startedlate in the summer from seeds or cuttings, or if started earlierthey must be set away or laid down till autumn. Thebulbous plants for winter use should be laid down in theshade in May, and… … Fig. 76. gonias; and for climbers, the cypress-vine, nasturtium, andivy, are the plants that require the least trouble and succeedbest. For supporting the pots, a window box is the cheapest;it can be lined with zinc, and filled in around the pots withmoss, if desirable. A strong wire stand, set on…
Interior decoration · Home Economics
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