A garden sculpture should be mounted at least 18 inches above the ground. It should be cleaned to keep off moss and algae.
Oops. Thanks to our readers who have corrected us. We described "Siam jewelry" in last week's ezine (April 15) as enameled (decorated with a vitreous substance, usually melted glass) when it is actually decorated with niello, a black metallic alloy of sulphur, copper, silver and sometimes lead. Other readers emailed that they own Siam jewelry made in the 1940s, so the jewelry is even older than we thought. But to our readers who worried about using the word "Siam" for jewelry made after the country's name changed to "Thailand" in 1949, stop worrying. The tourist jewelry made there is always called "Siam jewelry" by collectors.
