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Biddeford Saco Journal

Location

Biddeford, Maine, United States of America

Date

May 12, 1964

Page

5

Small Investments Will Improve Your Home

A year by year improvement plan helps turn a basic house into a distinctive home with charm. Use small investments like paint and plan larger touches such as statuary, fountains, and landscaping to create color, privacy, and a garden-worthy scene.

Jack Boscage Narcissus Apollo

Sale Of Own Home Can Be Complicated

A homeowner weighs selling without a broker versus using a real estate agent. Brokers often speed sales and secure better prices through negotiation and area knowledge. Ads should be factual, curb appeal matters, and the final price is usually a compromise near the asking figure. Taxes and selling costs affect profit.

Uncle Sam

English Painter Builds An Ideal Japanese Home

STORRINGTON England AP John Eastman a painter of Japanese birds and flowers designed a Japanese style house with glass walls tatami mats and sliding paper walls. He and wife Honor found pine trees bamboo and springs to suit. The house features movable windows a skylight and a future stone garden. Eastman plans murals of pale misty scenery though he has never visited Japan.

Eastman Japan

Renaissance Mural Trend Drives Home Decor under Cassini

Oleg Cassini's New York Renaissance home inspires taste for medieval armor banners and 16th and 17th century furnishings. Imaginative Mario Arbace crafts authentic accents while James Seeman advances opera mural wallpaper from La Boheme to Swan Lake.

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Gardener's nine basic tools outlined by Union Fork and Hoe

A garden tool specialist lists nine essentials for efficient gardening. For soil preparation include a steel rake spade and hoe. For sowing a four piece set covers trowels a cultivator and a lawn weeder. Add turf edger and pruning shears for maintenance. As skill grows more specialized tools may be added.

Union Fork and Hoe Company

Attractive Hedges Enhance Gardens With One yearly Trim

Garden experts from Union Fork and Hoe Company of Columbus Ohio outline hedge options from privets and barberries to Japanese quinces and beeches. One yearly trim keeps hedges tidy. evergreens like pines, junipers, and yews offer broad to narrow forms. Colorful flowering shrubs and holly provide seasonal bloom.

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Group Planting Guide Mentions Male Specimens Amid Mix

The guide notes including a few male plants among a mixed group to ensure pollination, advising balanced representation and careful placement to support fruiting and growth.

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