. The complete home landscape. Landscape gardening; Gardens. 22 THE COMPLETE HOME LANDSCAPE. after, cut as often as necessary, lowering the blade as the lawn be- comes established. FERTILIZER AND WINTER COVER Fig. 19.—If the house is not too far from the street, the walk and drive can be kept quite separate but parallel, as shown here If it is possible to secure really well rot- ted, long manure, spread a half-inch layer over the lawn in late Fall or early Winter, after the ground is frozen. This can be raked off in Spring and the lawn rolled. As a top dressing, sheep manure is good, or nitrat
. The complete home landscape. Landscape gardening; Gardens. 22 THE COMPLETE HOME LANDSCAPE. after, cut as often as necessary, lowering the blade as the lawn be- comes established. FERTILIZER AND WINTER COVER Fig. 19.—If the house is not too far from the street, the walk and drive can be kept quite separate but parallel, as shown here If it is possible to secure really well rot- ted, long manure, spread a half-inch layer over the lawn in late Fall or early Winter, after the ground is frozen. This can be raked off in Spring and the lawn rolled. As a top dressing, sheep manure is good, or nitrate of soda mixed with an equal amount of acid phosphate and one-fourth that amount of kainit. This should be applied in early Spring before growth commences, at the rate of about eight pounds to one thousand square feet. TO ELIMINATE WEEDS FROM A LAWN Experiments recently terminated have proved that by creating an acid soil all weeds will be caused gradually to disappear, and certain lawn grasses caused to thrive. The best of these grasses are Creeping Bent, Rhode Island Bent, Red Top and Red Fescue. They can be used at the same rate as other seed mentioned, namely, about five pounds to one thousand square feet. To bring about the desired con- dition of the soil when making a new lawn, omit the lime and, in fact, any material or fertilizer that may tend to sweeten (or overcome the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jennings, Arthur J; Johnson, Leonard H. New York, A. T. De La Mare
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