The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c (1907) (14801963673)

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Title: The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c
Year: 1832 (1830s)
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Subjects: Agriculture Farm produce Farm produce
Publisher: London : Isaac Alger
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign



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Mosaic China Work. This pretty but antiquated china patch-worklooks really difficult, but in reality it is ex-tremely easy, as well as fascinating, to thosewho are fond of making useful and prettythings out of next lo nothing. The first thing to be done is to collect all thedainty pieces of broken china, glass, etc. Theeasiest way to get a varied selection, is to askyour friends to save their broken ware for you.You can also ask the assistants of the chinashop you usually patronise to put by bits foryou, the owner of the shop will, no doubt, beonly too glad to get rid of them. You mustthen decide what you intend making. Largedrain pipes look famous for umbrella-stands,and for standing grasses in for the corner of aroom, or to fill up an ugly corner in a staircase.Jars look very pretty for standing pots of fernsor flowers in. When you have chosen the articleyou mean to decorate, you must purchase somegood, soft putty, and put a layer of it over the