Archive for March, 2010
A Summer Hobby
In the long hot afternoons of midsummer, -why not employ the time pleasantly and profitably by making up items for charm strings or table displays. This is a good time to use up odds and ends of lacquer and bright paint. It will dry quickly and the various articles will be ready to assemble for [...]
Centaures Americanus
As we drove through northern Texas one June before the war, I was charmed with a beautiful flower I had never seen before. It grew by the roadsides and in the fields from three to six feet tall, with solitary thistle-like flowers of a deep rose color and from three to five inches across. It [...]
Climbing Roses
Climbing roses include all varieties that produce long cane growth and require some sort of support to hold the plants up off the ground. They are often trained on fences or trellises, and some are used to cover banks and aid in holding the soil in place. Climbing roses are rather hardy. The Ramblers – [...]