Finish The Cover With Fringe: The easiest solution to revitalising a couch or armchair is to buy a length of attractive fabric and drape it over the furniture. How much you want it to overhang and how much you tuck it in depends of the style of the rest of the decor in the room. You can finish the cover with fringe, or a decorative trim or braid. A lovely drape can be achieved with an ethnic bedspread or a beautiful woven rug.
One way of breaking up the expanse of loosely draped material is to cover it with an array of brightly colored cushions. This is especially effective if you use scraps or remnants of expensive fabrics such as plain silk or brocade, and make small cushions in different sizes and shapes.
You always produce a better finish if you apply two thin coats rather than one thicker one. If you decide to use a roller, choose one to suit the texture of the wall. For example, to cover a smooth surface and give an even finish, use a foam or mohair roller; while for deeply textured or rough surfaces, a shaggy pile roller is best.
Begin by working the roller in all direc¬tions and finish off with light strokes in a single direction. It is best to work over a small area at a time.See Also Four Cover Crops:It isn't necessary to rake the surface perfectly smooth before or after sowing any of these crops but rake them in so that most of the seeds are four cover cropsed. When top growth is six to twelve inches tall, spade the four cover crops crop under or bury it with plow or roto-tiller and immediately refertilize and sow another four cover crops crop. Don't turn the last of the four cover crops crops under later than six weeks before sowing the permanent grass seed.
Green manuring means growing four cover crops crops especially for the purpose of turn¬ing them under and converting them in the soil into humus. The humus is formed by the decay of the extensive root systems as well as the tops. To induce four cover crops crops to make maximum growth, add fertilizer before each crop and lime if a soil test indicates its need.
Begin your soil improvement program at any time. Lime if necessary and spread a complete fertilizer at the rate of about 50 pounds to each 1,000 square feet if it is a 5-10-5, or if it is of some other analysis at rates proportionate to the amount of nitrogen contained.
On The Other Hand See Bank Cover:For sunny locations there are excellent possibilities. Sedums of many kinds can be used. Among the best are acre, album hybridum, rupestre, sexangulare and stoloniferum. These take hold with great ease, withstand dryness extraordinary well, and are evergreen. If the soil is acid and freely drained bearberry makes a magnificent evergreen bank cover. It is difficult to transplant; only small, pot-grown specimens should be set out. It is hopeless to uproot plants from the wild and attempt to establish them in the garden. The moss pink (Phlox subulata) is green throughout the year and blooms profusely—white, pink, lilac or red—in spring. As a bank cover for full sun this plant is good.
Furthermore, Britain, Canada, and many other nations had abrogated or suspended in the 1930's the statutory requirements under which the central bank was to keep a cover in gold (or in gold and foreign exchange) for its note and deposit liabilities. The United States lifted the legal gold requirement in two stages in 1965 and 1968 in the wake of sharp gold losses resulting from its balance-of-payments deficit. By 1969, only three countries—Belgium, Switzerland, and the Union of South Africa—remained required legally to hold a gold cover. In a few other countries, the required cover consisted of gold and eligible foreign exchange.
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