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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesga41907newy (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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July, 1907 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 269 ceries can be had for the same price one pays in town, while green vegetables, milk, cream, etc., should be cheap when they are to be had from farms adjacent to the anchorage. To suggest anchorages and mooring places where house- boats may be best enjoyed would be an almost endless and futile task, for our country is a network of rivers and streams. Besides the numberless inland waters there are the coast lines with the indentations and bays, suitable for house-boat moorings. There are certain things to bear in mind when picking out an anchorage, wherever it may be. Be sure that it is per- fectly sheltered from every quarter, anchor as near the shore entirely new; that is, the scows were specially built to take the house, which insures a tight and clean hull. Taking an old scow or hull and building a house on it is a questionable operation, for the converted hulls are generally leaky and frequently are infested with vermin. The building of an entirely new boat may mean a greater outlay at first, but she will be far more satisfactory and in the long run the cost for repairs will be less. "Hostess," the smallest of the quartet, was designed for his own use by Mr. Charles D. Mower, a well-known naval architect practicing in New York City. She was built at College Point, L. I., under the designer's supervision.
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