A MESSAGE FROM HUT GARDENER.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1931, Page 6 (Supplement)

A MESSAGE FROM HUT GARDENER.

PRETTY BULB BOWLS. The Hut Gardener has persuaded Dressmaker to let him write to you this week, children, Because he wants to tell you- how to make pretty bowls for indoor 'bulbs. •Any tin or jar will do. The big round bowl shown to the left of the sketch started .life as a cake-tin, which the Hut Cook had discarded! Give the tin a coat of black enamel inside and out, having previously rubbed off any rusty patches with sandpaper, and put it aside to dry. You can get twopenhy tins, of enamel, in black, white and colour®,' at most art-shops; and each tin holds enough paint for decorating heaps of jafs and tins. ' . . ‘ Sketch out with white chalk a conventional flower border round the black painted tin—Diagram A gives you an idea of the shapes to draw. Fill in the flowers with enamels, using as many colours as you like —red, blue, orange and white, with yellow blobs fdr centres and wee green splashes for leaves—’but 'be careful not to, let the different col-

“A Message from the Hut Gardiner.” An old cake tin, a stone jar, and a little brown honey-pot; all decorated to form pretty bulb bowls.

ours run into each other. Put the decorated tin away somewhere out of the dust until, it has dried thoroughly. Behind the big tin is an ordinary stone jam-jar which has been turned into a jolly bulb-bowl by means of painted squares in different colours. Diagram B shows you this idea. • Then there’s a little earthenware hon-ey-pot, just right tor three tiny bulbs: t)iis is left in its own colour, a scalloped decoration in cream enamel is added, and. blue spots are painted between the curves.

Once you begin, there is no end to the pretty patterns you will be able to make up. Then you must fill the pots with bulb-fibre, and plant bulbs in them as .soon as possible.

The Hut Gardener.

AUNTIE CAKES

(Sent by Albert Robinson.)

Jib. butter, 1 teacup sugar, 2 eggs, Jibcornflour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, essence of lemon to taste. Method: Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add eggs beaten, flavouring, and lastly cornflour and baking powder mixed. Bake H buttered patty tins in quick oven.