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Show -- 48" 2'0"--- L Architect' sketch show construction details of a concrete garden bench that is adapt able for use either in garden or on patio. 1Q"l4" - No. 4 Steel "jUt Reinforcement This ISencK Leg 00 Molding 1 X Top View IsziTuilt - To Least by Grant Frederickson X, HIS. ONE PIECE concrete garden seat is very easy to build. The seat is contemporary and can be used to good effect in the modern garden. It is inexpensive, clean,- - re- shades of green, that exquisite beauty of the forest Is largely the result of one of Natures secrets. Just good soil a century in the making from a collection of bark, twigs, leaves and other growing things which decompose and form that rich carpet of earth so valuable to any garden. And now you can buy it. CASCADE SOIL-AIis a finely ground, composted and nitrogen processed forest bark soil conditioner Those countless At mukh surfocs around plants, frees and shrubs. Cascade Sod-Ai- d captures and holds moisture. It also insulates roots ogaintt both extremes in temperature. It tends to neutralize any alkoA wtikh might be in the sad or water. Acid loving plants show mazing root activity in soil treated with Cascade lawns, flowers or shrubs. It provides humus and conditions any soil for easier working, more effective watering and better growing. Use it on It works down into the soil ond maintains the humus supply essential to healthy plant growth. Necessary organic matter, too, is furnished in this way. Sod-Ai- BEATS PEAT I KADV TO USfl NO SHMD-DINO SOAKING! WON PACK O AU UP! T G AS ADVERTISED IN quires no maintenance, and fas durable and attractive. It can be made easily by first casting the legs. Pour paper tubes or other molds full of concrete and when it is firm but still green remove the paper tube to finish the surface. When you are casting the leg be sure it is well shaken and pulled to remove all the air pockets. While the concrete is still soft, put the No. 4 steel reinforcing in the top of each, leg. After the legs are completed and in place, build a scaffolding to hold the mold for the seat. The scaffolding must, of course, be firm and well built, as must be the form for the seat. The reinforcing steel bars should be tied in place then the seat poured. AS A MIX for the legs and seat use the proportion of 1 part cement, 2 parts sharp clean sand, 2 parts clean gravel. When the concrete is firm, but before it is hard, remove the foVm and finish the surface on the seat. Remember, the finishing of the seat is very important and must be done very carefully if the bench is to be attractive piece of furniture in your outdoor-living area. It may be finished smooth, textured, or of exposed aggregate. When you have finished the seat, cure the concrete by keeping cool wet burlap bags over it for a few days. Concrete garden seat kffsalso are available for the gardener and landscaper who does not want to do 'all the work himself only a small part of it. THESE KITS consist of a form and reinforcing rods for the seat, the concrete mix for the bench top, plus two cast concrete blocks of various designs which are the legs. These concrete benches are somewhat portable, but the legs must rest on a flat and fairly solid base for the best results. SWmcT Another quatHw-controllo- d product of Boite'Catcode Corporation, BoIm, Idaho 1 At ALL Leading Garden Supply Centers PceFab Greenhouses Tho Rom for Uul v FLOWERLAND BUILDERS 8r ok Motino, Oregon Sond for Literature 23 The Salt Lake Tribune Home Magazine |
