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NASTURTIUM ADDS COLOR, SPICE.(At Home)
From:
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
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November 6, 2004
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Byline: Maureen Gilmer DIY -- Do It Yourself Network
Imagine a woman on the Midwestern prairie in her newly built frame house. During the long winter nights she basked in the light of an oil lamp perusing her seed catalogs. For the first time since homesteading in that dirty sod hut, she could contemplate a true garden.
The garden would not only set off the new house, but stand up to scrutiny of fashionable visitors from the East. There on the pages of the cat...
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