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Permanent Decorative:
There are two types of slipcovers to be taken into consideration: the temporary ones used during the summer months, and the ones that form part of the permanent decorative scheme of a room. The latter may properly be used throughout the year provided they are well-tailored and fit snugly over the furniture, and provided the material harmonizes with the decorations already existing in a room.Inexpensive draperies may be made of theatrical gauze, sateen, mull, ticking, or almost any other cheap material. When the Textile itself has little interest, it is essential that the colors and color scheme be well worked out and of unusual harmony. Paper draperies are sold by the department stores and large mail order houses, but this material cannot be considered for serious or permanent decorative work.
If you are not able to get your soil into good condition in time for sowing early don't make your permanent lawn in the spring. Instead, start planting a temporary spring lawn. With very little soil preparation you can do this. Simply attend to the grading, add whatever humus you can and a little fertilizer and lime if needed and sow the ground with Italian or domestic ryegrass. Rake it lightly into the surface but don't go to the same trouble you will when you make your permanent lawn. The ryegrass soon germinates and makes a fine looking lawn through summer. You may mow it, walk on it and use it just as you would an ordinary lawn but it will not be permanent and if you do nothing to replace it, will die out within a year or so. But this temporary lawn will crowd out weeds, and when you dig or plow it under before you sow your new lawn in mid-September, the tops and the roots of the ryegrass will add valuable humus to the soil and improve it tremendously in preparation for the permanent lawn. •
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