If the garden is full they may be sown in an ordinary wooden box filled with several inches of good earth.
The whole was mounted on a wooden stand with wooden supports at the back, one running up to the boy's head and the other to the tip of the dog's tail.
If the farmer has the new wooden hives with a glass covering he will very likely let you peep in and see the bees at work.
Standard Lamp A serviceable standard lamp can be made by taking a small empty cotton spool, gilding or painting it, and fixing the wooden part of a thin penholder firmly into it.
Besides these tools you will need either wooden labels or other home-made means of marking seeds, some strong sticks to use as supports for tall-growing plants, and tape to tie them up with.
In these there should be a wooden bench for him to lie on, sheltered by a sloping roof.
Bedroom Furniture--Materials You will need-- Two large wooden match-boxes.
The second candle was lit, and stuck in the rough wooden carrying-stick, the other was taken from the crack in the stone and treated the same.
He walked off the boat on the farther side and climbed a series of steep wooden stairways, past a tiny cataract that foamed its way down to the river.
Over the seat is a mirror cut into small squares by wooden muntins.
Behind them lay the one street of the little mining camp, with its wooden shanties on either side of the railroad track.
Through the wide, unpaved streets, lined with their low wooden buildings, they drove to the Bines mansion, a landmark in the oldest and most fashionable part of the town.
A scant mile beyond the church hill and the linden-grove there ran a narrow but very deep stream, which was crossed by an old wooden bridge.
The devout ones rub his wooden image--there is no bronze or gold in poor Binzuru's makeup.
Her exquisite little hands, and her exquisite little feet, shod in wooden sandals, with a button between the toes, such sandals as he was wearing.
The foreigner lay stretched out in an awkward attitude, knees drawn up, his head sliding off the wooden block, most uncomfortable.
She was wearing native sandals, clumsy wooden sandals, with knobs between the first two toes.
The Bishop continued to look at the beautiful, disdainful head of the young foreigner, sliding limply off itswooden pillow.
But in the settlements wooden shoes were worn instead of moccasins, and garments of texture lighter than buckskin.
Wooden walls were filled and daubed with a solid mass of what was called cat-and-clay, a mixture of mortar and chopped straw or Spanish moss.
First came a wooden dish of sagamity or corn-meal boiled in water and grease.
About a hundred houses stood crowded together within the wooden wall of these tall log pickets, which were twenty-five feet high.
On a light soil and near a south wall you can, with a hammer and nails and a few laths, knock up a wooden framework that will hold a piece of sacking or an Archangel mat over your plants, and keep the worst of the frost from them.
You can put six of these cuttings in a five-inch pot, or a large number in a wooden box; and remember that cuttings root better close to the edge of a pot than in the middle.
But if you have no gas, and a sunny window in which you can place a good-sized plain wooden table, you may have a delightful room garden, as well as some pot plants in other places.
Ferns hung over its edge, and one or two hardy water-plants grew on its surface, while over a corner of it there was a wooden bridge.
It is a good plan to make plenty of large wooden labels, as the little ones you buy are easily lost.
Of course, if you are a country child, and can get the village carpenter to make you a wooden arch of small straight Larches or other young tree-trunks, you will prefer it to any wire construction.
If possible, you should also have a two-quart watering-can, a sieve, and a little galvanized iron or wooden wheelbarrow for rubbish.
In a country without wood, in a besieged city, a woodenmountain 400 feet in height is erected, which must have towered high above all the walls and towers, and have been seen from far by friend and foe.
This is done by means of slips under which are placed wooden rollers.
Jeremiah came forward in opposition and said: "Wooden yokes thou wilt break, and lay on iron yokes.
Set on fire at the time of destruction, the wooden roofs of the palaces were reduced to cinders, and fell in upon the floor of the chambers, where portions of them are still to be found.
The entrance is one of the most elaborate in the palace, and its wooden ceiling, pieced to resemble stalactites, is a charming piece of work, as also are those of the other important rooms of the palace.
The sentinels at the door seemed to have been taught to imitate the wooden salute of the Germans, which removes any particle of grace which might have remained in spite of their clumsy dress.
This is in very large crystals, heaped in mule panniers, from which the dealers mete it out in wooden measures.
This is no less than a series of pictures painted on skins sewn together, glued and fastened to the wooden dome with tinned tacks, and covered with a fine coating of gypsum, the gilt parts being in relief.
Her nose, too, was slit, and through the slit was a wooden skewer.
He found the gold piece, and something else he found, too--a small wooden box with a loose cover.
In the time of Emir Hayder, the Samanide, there were yet some wooden remains, which that person brought to Bokhara, and used for the building of his castle.
Beyond this point the staircase branched off on the right, and a row of stout wooden banisters, ranged like the feet of so many cattle, was visible from beneath.
Though he proceeded carefully, the sufferer was put to excruciating pain; and when Baldred placed him on a wooden bench, and held a lamp towards him, he perceived that his features were darkened and distorted.
Carve on the wooden slab o'er his head: "Somebody's darling slumbers here.
The good wooden walls of the island; Devil or Don, let them come on; And see how they'd come off the island!
The dazed and stupefied old natives wandering around in their wooden shoes are in the minority.
Picture a freight yard in all its heat and hideousness, and a collection of wooden barracks, no trees, and you will see the place.
For beds we had two wooden frames with chicken wire stretched over them, and plenty of blankets.
I am good friends with these little fellows in their pinafores andwooden shoes.
Gloriod had told me of a wooden floor made to fit over the tank in the village "lavoir," which the mayor of Pouillenay had had made in the happy days before the war.
The passenger's seat is in front, perched on two wooden bars stretched obliquely upwards and backwards from the front of the vehicle.
The manufacture of lumber and wooden ware is one of the leading industrial pursuits.
This is done by hanging them by the tail on wooden frames.
The people say that it is fear of fire which makes them separate their insignificant woodenhouses by such disproportionately broad streets.
The lur is a long wooden instrument, of the trumpet order, and is usually made of birch bark.
Saion Zenji, the holy man, lived for some time upon the food that was in hiswooden bowl.
He gave to her a plain white wooden box, in which, when she had opened it, she found a round piece of metal.
On the seventh night the servant of the samurai, wakeful with fear and sorrow, made bold to peer into his lord's room through a crack in the wooden shutters.
As he filled the begging bowl and patted down the rice with a wooden spoon and laughed, the nun caught him by the sleeve and held him and looked into his eyes.
My dear, I am not afraid of the wooden bowl," said the young man.
When her little store of rice was done, the maid with the wooden bowl knew well enough that she must starve or go and find more.
She wore a great black wooden bowl upon her head, which is the great black cloud in my song, and from under it her tears flowed like rain, for I saw the drops upon her white chin.
Oh, dear, dear maiden with the wooden bowl, she shall be my bride and no other.
I don't see any old father here, only a white wooden box.
Ever and again they climbed the steep hillside to kneel at the shrine of Kwannon the Merciful, and to speak with the holy man, whose wooden bowl they would fill with rice or millet, or barley-meal or beans.
The two scouts crossed the shop and made their way noisily up the wooden stairs to the meeting room, where they found half a dozen lads in an animated discussion as to where the biggest and best Christmas trees were to be found.
Raising the bridge floor was accomplished quickly, for the wooden structure was nowhere near as heavy as the auto truck.
By this time the lads had all but finished the big wooden trumpet and it was only necessary to set the fan, bolt the motor into place and give the whole thing a coat of paint.
The plan was to conduct the contests on the level stretch of turf before the grandstand, and as a finale set fire to the woodenstructure and have a real demonstration of fire fighting.
One group was wearing the wooden shoes and frocks of Holland, another group was costumed as Russian peasants and still others were dressed to represent German, Swedish, Danish and Irish folk.
He lent a hand to each of the boys in turn as they stepped up on the gunwale and hopped gingerly across to the wooden platform.
To illustrate, he took a long wooden match out of his pocket and lit it with his thumbnail.
A good crew boss can drop a tree smack on a little wooden stake and hammer it into the ground.
There was a double-decker wooden bunk against one wall, a comfortable-looking leather easy chair in the nearest corner, and three straight-back wooden chairs.
Lars steered the launch toward a rickety wooden dock before a small frame bungalow set back about 100 feet from the water's edge.
There were about twenty wooden tables with benches running down each side of the mess hall.
Half of a tent, to be exact, with enough wooden pegs to anchor it to the ground.
Russell Steele nodded as he relit his pipe with a long wooden match.
Sandy took a long breath and put his left foot on the first wooden rung, grasping the rope sides firmly.
Crowds overflowed the wooden settees, brimmed into the aisles, and were packed, in serried rows as tight as codfish in a box, against the wall.
In front of the hotels the inevitable geraniums blazed scarlet in mathematical flower-beds; and the boarding-houses convalesced from housecleaning in striped white scrim curtains and freshly painted blue wooden pumps.
The two young men stood at the foot of the bare, wooden stairs in the cold entry of Galilee Hall, at the dividing of their ways.
Jane understood about Kubla Khan (or she thought she did, which answers the same purpose), for she had read the poem aloud to him one day while her mother sat sewing in the wooden rocking-chair.
Fenton drew up the wooden rocking-chair to the cylinder stove, in which a low fire glimmered, and put his feet on top of the stove, after the manner of Cesarea and Galilee Hall.
At the foot of each soldier's bed was whatever manner of small wooden box he could corral from the quartermaster, and there he kept all he owned.
Inside Field Headquarters, the little bare wooden rooms were stripped of their few battered vases and old chromos, and plain woodentables and chairs were set about.
The engineers had laid a spur of railroad to link the largest of them with the main arteries of communication, and the labor units had built the same sort of small wooden city that sprang up all over America as cantonments.
One morning the Prince was at one end of the garden straightening up some wooden soldiers which had toppled over, and Peter was in the wax doll bed dusting the dolls.
If it had not been for the indentures, lying serenely in that tall wooden desk, she would almost have forgotten, herself, that she was a bound girl.
My daughter shall not churn in a common wooden churn, or skim the cream from wooden pans," he had said.
Moreover the thought of the indentures, securely locked up in Mr. Wales' tall wooden desk, was forever in Ann's mind.
Down the stairs and through the lower corridor she hastened toward the plain wooden door whose key she hoped next year to claim for her own fingers.
We found the judges sitting at bare tables with their lists before them and wooden booths along the walls.
In instant obedience to my words the priest stretched himself at full length behind the low wooden gutter.
The only other furniture I noted in my hasty survey consisted of a rough stool chair, and a huge iron-bound, wooden sea-chest, the last so bulky as almost completely to block the narrow space between the lower berth and the opposite wall.
A heavy wooden post, with a pulley attachment, stood behind where we rested, probably fitted there for hauling up heavy bales of cotton.
Come now, give me just a bite of the white meat, and yonder grinning wooden image will never miss it.
More than one expedient was resorted to with bits of canvas, wooden pegs, or whatsoever else we could lay hands upon, but our efforts resulted each time in sickening failure.
Never pausing to answer, I crept between the spreading wooden limbs, and, with the expenditure of no small effort, succeeded in wriggling into the narrow hole beyond.
Owing to the mass of over-hanging cordage and the high wooden bulwarks on either side, the night appeared even darker than when I was above, perched on the dizzy yard.
