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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 1915 
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Southwest, plastered with Mud. The 
Plastering is the Covering; it has no 
reference to a particular material. 
Stucco, as used now in America, means 
simply Outside Plastering. It used to re¬ 
fer to a certain material composed of 
Lime, Sand and Marble-dust, but this 
meaning is lost. 
My client should have said a “Plastered 
House,” or a “Stuccoed House.” A “Con¬ 
crete House” is far from what he meant. 
But all this has nothing to do with Robert 
Adam and his style. He introduced a cu¬ 
rious material for plastering or stuccoing 
his buildings outside, and kept the exact 
formula secret, I believe; he had bought 
it from an Italian. Inside for his orna¬ 
ment he used a mixture of “dead” or “set” 
Plaster of Paris, some sort of fiber and 
an unknown glutenous compound, the 
mixture, as we have said, poured hot into 
metal moulds. We do not know exactly 
what it was; but the material is unim¬ 
portant. His interiors would have been 
just as good in ordinary Plaster of Paris 
and Lime ; perhaps better. 
We are behind him in design—the av¬ 
erage of us — but we have plastering ma¬ 
terials at our command of which he never 
dreamed. They are all combinations of 
our elemental three, Lime, Plaster of 
Paris and Cement, but so many combina¬ 
tions are there, with so many inert ma¬ 
terials ! Selentic Cement, Parian Cement, 
Keene's Cement, Adamant Plaster, Scag- 
iola, Marezzo, and the various kinds of 
outside plastering, such as Sgraffito, Depe- 
ter, Rough Cast, Pebble Dark, and all the 
various imitations of stone. 
Let us throw up our hands and stop, or 
we will soon have a text-book on “Plas¬ 
tering !” 
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Efficiency in the Flower Garden — II 
(Continued from page 161) 
be just right. It must be a soil that will 
absorb and hold a great deal of water. It 
must also be fine and light, so that the 
sprouting seeds may push up through it 
readily. Decomposed sod, or garden loam 
with as much fibrous matter in it as pos¬ 
sible ; leaf mold, or chip-dirt or cocoanut 
fibre, and sand or very finely sifted coal 
ashes, are the ingredients required. Mix 
the loam and leaf mould in equal portions 
and add as much of the sand as is needed 
to ‘'cut" the mixture thoroughly, making 
it so that when a handful of it is squeezed 
up into a ball it will crumble apart under 
the touch of the finger when released. 
After these things are mixed together run 
them through a sieve — an ash-sifter will 
answer the purpose, if you havn’t one you 
use especially for your garden work. 
While flower-pots are sometimes used for 
starting seeds in, it is exceedingly difficult 
to keep the soil in them at an even degree 
of moisture, and results are likely to be 
unsatisfactory. Seed-pans, which are 
made for the purpose and are inexpensive, 
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