AN IVY BALL
A pretty hanging garden for a porch can be made with an old sponge and some shoots of ivy. Tie a piece of string to the sponge so that it can be suspended, and get five or six shoots of ivy a few inches long and push the cut ends of these into holes In the sponge. Trail the other parts of tire shoots over the sponge, keeping them in place with hairpins, for the closer the stems are to the sponge the better. Keep the sponge moist by soaking it in a bowl of water now and again. The ivy shoots will send out roots into the sponge, and soon after many new leaves will apear, making the bail a mass of greenery.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21575, 10 February 1940, Page 6
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127AN IVY BALL Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21575, 10 February 1940, Page 6
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