NOVEL ORNAMENT.
From the French scientific journal La Nature, we cull the following recipe fo r making a pretty and cheap room ornament. Procure a cheap sponge, the larger the better: place In warm water, and squeeze out all the moisture. Plant in the holes, seeds of millet, barley, purslain, red clover, grasses, See, and iu general any seeds which will germinate easily, and which will afford a variety, .of colour. Hang the sponge so prepared in a window, or place it in a vase where the sun will reach it, sprinkling it with water every morning for a week. It will soon be covered with vegetation—to remind those whose lives are unfortunately spent amid bricks and mortar, of the brighter world outside.
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Patea Mail, 28 July 1882, Page 4
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