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 388
Fig- 77- window is wanting, and drops a hint as to how an ivy maybe concealed behind a mirror, with its graceful loops hang-ing down on each side, and a small portion j ust peeping intothe glass. The cut on page 331 shows how the scroll-saw may beemployed in window gardening. The lambrequin at… … Fig. 78. 332 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. We have seen shrubs employed with excellent results, inmaking a background for the more showy plants; and inone instance a species of maple, eight feet high, in full leafin midwinter, was perhaps the most admired of the wholecollection. Of course the…
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