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That Self-Heating Greenhouse 
(Continued from page 84) 
after the loam went on this, the in¬ 
terior of the house became oppres¬ 
sively hot even for November. 
The following Saturday the end 
glasses arrived from the mill and 
were soon fitted and screwed into 
place. Inside the greenhouse was 
now laid the concrete floor and the 
long narrow tank that went down the 
center was finished. 
The front cornice of the green¬ 
house caused some little thought. 
Obviously, the thin frame of the hot¬ 
bed sash would not do to secure the 
end frames to, because these sashes 
must be raised for airing and venti¬ 
lation on hot days, so we built a 
cornice of 4"x%" pine running down 
from the rafter to the wall frames 
at the south end of the greenhouse, 
and the last sashes abutted evenly 
against these, whilst under them 
came the end glass frames being 
nailed to them by long brads driven 
down through the cornice. Filling in 
the corners under these eaves we put 
an inch cove moulding quarter-round, 
and finally, over each crack between 
the hotframe sashes, we nailed a 
wide, flat, 2", double OG pine mould¬ 
ing, nailed to one sash only, so that 
they could all be raised at the lower 
end beginning with the north sash. 
After all this work had been 
painted with two coats of Outside 
White, we rested from our labors, 
and found ourselves in possession of 
a 9'xl5' greenhouse at an expendi¬ 
ture of some $60 in cash and four 
Saturdays of exercise. It being No¬ 
vember, we planted the west bed in¬ 
side the greenhouse in lettuce, and 
moved in the orange tree and all the 
box pyramids and balls about the 
place, for we lost a great deal of 
potted box from freezing up the 
winter before and did not propose 
to have this happen again. And so 
we went into the winter. 
Warren H. Miller. 
Spanish Bedspreads in American Homes 
(Continued from page 36) 
ventionalized forms of fruit, flowers, 
foliage, vases, baskets, birds, animals, 
lettering and geometrical designs. Near¬ 
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stitch work familiar on old samplers.. 
Borders of stiff grape vines and bunches 
of grapes were in particular favor and, 
since these spreads were frequently given 
as wedding presents, the Christian names 
of the bride and groom now and again 
appear woven prominently into the bor¬ 
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spread shown in one of the illustrations. 
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cosmopolitan, that the merits of the 
Spanish bedspread, now becoming more 
generally known on our side of the At¬ 
lantic, render it a welcome and adapt¬ 
able adjunct in household embellishment. 
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