Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar81911newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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On the deck cushions under the canvas cover at noontide Lodged for the night under the bridge special outing for a single vacation, it will be better to rent a small houseboat by the week, with the equine motive power hired for a corresponding period; and the provisions may be collected on the way, through the many towns and villages passed en route; with the fresh milk, vegetables and fruits bought directly from the farmers whose fertile acres border the canal. When the houseboat is to serve as a permanent vaca- tion home, to be used year after year, it will be better to have it built to order, with the conveniences and makeshifts of its limited quarters endeared to the possessors by the personal supervision in their ar- rangement. The houseboat on which we took our first canal va- cation had a bit of interest- ing history that might serve as a practical lesson to many, in solving this outing problem. It was a zealous, consecrated minister, of a compara- tively poor church, who owned the tiny but convenient float- ing home. Living all his life in a rented home, and chang- ing occasionally when the abode had become homelike just as a fresh "call" to a distant church demanded another up- rooting of home ties, it became the dearest wish of the
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A fascinating stretch of canal through level country Among the ever-changing allurements of the Lehigh Mountains

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