Sometimes boards are used, which are cut to the figure intended to be represented, and covered with moist clay into which the stems of the flowers are inserted to preserve their freshness ; and they are so arranged to form a beautiful mosaic work, often tasteful in design, and vivid in colouring ; the boards thus adorned are placed in the spring, that the water appears to issue from among the beds of flowers.

Tubs of flowers line the steps from the terrace ; around the walls are rose beds with flowering and evergreen shrubs.

# Domesticity – A woman's proper sphere was the home where a wife created a refuge for her husband and children ; Needlework, cooking, making beds, and tending flowers were considered proper feminine activities whereas reading of anything other than religious biographies was discouraged

Community funds are used mainly to keep the area beautiful with flowers and plants in community flower beds and to keep the common areas neatly trimmed and weed free.

Lawn garden with hardy flowers in beds and groups " from The English Flower Garden, engraving from a photograph. In The Wild Garden Robinson set forth fresh gardening principles that expanded the idea of garden and introduced themes and techniques that are taken for granted today, notably that of " naturalised " plantings.

The house is in perfect harmony with nature – there is no garden architecture, no pathways, beds or flowers.

It is equally useful for growing flowers, vegetables, herbs and some fruits in containers, raised beds, on tabletops or at ground level, in only 4 to of soil.

The Gardens consist of several lawns with flowering plants, ponds with lilies, beds of flowers and ferns laid out in an Italian style, several plots of flowering plants, a variety of medicinal plants.

Borders can go right up to the house, lawns are replaced with tufts of grass or flowers, and beds can be as wide as needed.

The Dumb Bunnies did everything in reverse, including sleeping under beds and putting flowers upside down in vases.

The dominant style was revised in the early 19th century to include more " gardenesque " features, including shrubberies with gravelled walks, tree plantations to satisfy botanical curiosity, and, most notably, the return of flowers, in skirts of sweeping planted beds.

Bed slats were washed in alum water, legs of beds were placed in cups of kerosene, and all woodwork was treated liberally with corrosive sublimate, applied with a feather.

If one looks at the fields around the Deserted Village and right up the mountain, one can see the tracks in the fields of ' lazy beds ', which is the way crops like potatoes were grown.

The beds were deposited at the base of a cliff about 160 m tall, below the depth agitated by waves during storms.

" They lived in unwalled villages, without any superfluous furniture ; for as they slept on beds of leaves and fed on meat and were exclusively occupied with war and agriculture, their lives were very simple, and they had no knowledge whatever of any art or science.

Based on a study of the British rock succession, it was the first of the modern ' system ' names to be employed, and reflects the fact that many coal beds were formed globally during this time.

Dense submarine thickets of long-stemmed crinoids appear to have flourished in shallow seas, and their remains were consolidated into thick beds of rock.

In the area that is now India, massive lava beds called the Deccan Traps were erupted in the very late Cretaceous and early Paleocene.

Improvements were made in nursing accommodation in order to recruit more nurses and reduce labour shortages which were keeping 60, 000 beds out of use, and efforts were made to reduce the imbalance “ between an excess of fever and tuberculosis ( TB ) beds and a shortage of maternity beds .” In addition, BCG vaccinations were introduced for the protection of medical students, midwives, nurses, and contacts of patients with TB, while a pension scheme was set up for employees of the newly-established NHS.

Several in-depth studies of salamander genera in fossil beds in Montana show that six of seven genera were unchanged after the event.

Historically, cranberry beds were constructed in wetlands.

Stages were very important in the 19th and early 20th century as they were the major tool available for dating rock beds until the development of seismology and radioactive dating in the second half of the 20th Century.

* Broken Dolls: This is a subgenre based on the popular medical fetish and involves young girls in hospital beds, covered in casts, splints, gauze, and fake bruises.

He was involved in local campaigns, for example to save a local primary school, to prevent the loss of a popular GP surgery in Rainham and against proposals to cut the number of beds at Oldchurch Hospital.

The elevated beds at the entrance are popular for their unique varieties.

It is the biggest and most popular holiday resort in Bulgaria, and is home to over 200 hotels with more than 300, 000 beds.

The topmost drawers of the tallboy could only be reached by the use of bed steps, and the disappearance of high beds and the consequent disuse of steps exercised a certain influence in displacing a characteristic piece of furniture which was popular for at least a century.

Murphy beds are popular where floor space is limited, such as small homes, apartments, mobile homes and college dormitories.

It is a popular beauty spot and is known locally for its springs-Millington Springs-which formerly supported large beds of watercress.

Box-spring beds are popular especially in the United States and Canada.

Infant beds constructed from metal became popular during the later half of the 19th century.

The beds and rocky sides of the two rivers provide one of the most popular venues in Wales for gorge-walkers.

The Romans first exploited the rich peat beds of the area for fuel, and in the Middle Ages the local monasteries began to excavate the peat lands as a turbary business, selling fuel to Norwich and Great Yarmouth.

Cayucos is the Chumash word for " kayak ," or " canoe ," which was used by the Chumash people to fish in the bay, particularly in the rich kelp beds just north of the current Cayucos pier.

These non-volcanic rock beds are rich with fossils of prehistoric marine life once native to the inland sea that covered the area some 280 million years ago, ranging from well preserved molluscan shells, to small fish.

The Reserve ’ s reed beds, marshes, heathland and woodland provide sanctuary for a rich and diverse community of animal and plant life, including many that are no longer to be found in an ordered, farmed countryside.

The province also boasts of a variety of marine ecosystems like the lush seagrass beds and coral reefs which are relatively healthy and intact, supporting a rich diversity of marine flora and fauna.

Where natural conditions of either grassland or forest ameliorate peak flows, stream beds are stable, possibly rich, with organic matter and exhibit minimal scour.

Since before the time of the Lenape, the Native American inhabitants of the area, the Lower Bay has sustained a rich marine ecosystem with multiple fish species and molluscs, especially oyster, clam and mussel beds.

Balsams grow both in and out of direct sunlight ; they prefer moist, rich soils, like roadside ditches, reed beds, fens, river banks and forest edges, and many are well able to colonize disturbed ruderal locations.

The islands and surrounding ocean are rich with ecologically diverse plants and sea life including Garry oaks, wild lilies, kelp beds and Orcas.

The soils on the lake beds are naturally rich in iron sulfides.

The formation consists of sandy dolomite, widespread black phosphate beds and black shale that is unusually rich not only in phosphorus, but also in vanadium, uranium, chromium, zinc, selenium, molybdenum, cobalt, and silver.

It is thought the site was chosen for its location near the junction of the River Forth and the River Almond, where the rich oyster and mussel beds proved a reliable natural resource.

His father, John Williamson, after beginning life as a gardener, became a well-known local naturalist, who, in conjunction with William Bean, first explored the rich fossiliferous beds of the Yorkshire coast.

He discovered rich fossil beds along Bridge Creek and near Sheep Rock in 1865.

These limestone beds are often iron rich, lending them a rusty colour.

SO < sub > 2 </ sub >- rich gases enter the catalytic converter, usually a tower with multiple catalyst beds, and are converted to SO < sub > 3 </ sub >, achieving the first stage of conversion.

Phosphate rich sedimentary rocks can occur in dark brown to black beds, ranging from centimeter sized laminae to beds that are several meteres in thickness.

Expeditions to fossil beds in Tendaguru in former Deutsch Ostafrika ( today Tanzania ) unearthed rich paleontological treasures.

At the first Assyrian conquest in the 870s BCE, the victors carried away from Kinalua silver and gold, 100 talents of tin, essential for making bronze, and 100 talents of iron ,, 1000 oxen and 10, 000 sheep, linen robes and decorated couches and beds of boxwood, as well as " 10 female singers, the king's brother's daughter with a rich dowry, a large female monkey and ducks ".

The mudflats, extensive eel grass beds and salt marshes support a rich population of marine invertebrates which are an important source of energy for migrating shorebirds.

Most of the gold came from the rich beds of placer gold found in the streams and first discovered in 1858, the same year Denver was founded.

The slow-moving water and reed beds in channels operated as a natural filtering system that removed silt from the Umfolozi floodwaters and created a rich habitat for numerous species.