. American cookery. WS OF GLASS BOTTLES CONSTITUTED A LAWN adapted to hillside or slope; while theBermuda, being tenacious and inclinedto wander into flower beds and gardensand objected to by many on this account,is considered, for this very tenacity, asmore fitted to resist heat and drought,and when well-watered presents morethe appearance of the Xorthem grassesthan any yet found in this region. For those unacquainted with theFlorida climate, let it be understoodthat while this state does not have aperfectly defined wet and dry season. since there is some moisture everymonth in the year, it i
. American cookery. WS OF GLASS BOTTLES CONSTITUTED A LAWN adapted to hillside or slope; while theBermuda, being tenacious and inclinedto wander into flower beds and gardensand objected to by many on this account,is considered, for this very tenacity, asmore fitted to resist heat and drought,and when well-watered presents morethe appearance of the Xorthem grassesthan any yet found in this region. For those unacquainted with theFlorida climate, let it be understoodthat while this state does not have aperfectly defined wet and dry season. since there is some moisture everymonth in the year, it is, nevertheless,true that the summer months, June,July and August are heaviest in precipi-tation, and irrigation is seldom neededduring these months. But during thewinter and spring, January, February,March, April and May, precipitationis light, and unless well watered, lawnsbecome brown and parched. For thisreason the good gardener assists natureby sowing broadcast over his alreadymade lawn some s:ood lawn mixture,. WHERE XO ALIEN BLADE OF GR.\SS DISTURBS THE SAND 350 AMERICAN COOKERY containing either Italian rye or blue-grass, or both. When this is done an-nually in September, when the groundis well moistened with the summersrains, the result is that, when the wintertourist reaches Florida in January andFebruary, he finds on every hand beauti-ful lawns, which, while perhaps not sofine in texture as the Northern lawns,are brilliantly colored and well-trimmedand altogether a joy to the eye. The newcomer to this state is amused,at first, over the manner of plantinggrasses. Accustomed as he has beento seeing a lawn quickly developed,either by sodding or bursting into lifein the Springtime from seed sown justbefore the winter snows, the sight of agardener making a lawn by laboriouslysetting out little rootlets two or threeinches apart and six inches apart, inrows, seems slow work to the the fact that St. Augustine grassand Bermuda are creepers and spreadrapidly soo
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