. Garden guide; the amateur gardeners' handbook. Profusely illustrated with over 275 teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographs, all made expressly for this standard text book . s of the stones andin a channel along the top,suitable plants are grown When and How to Sow Grass may be sown as soon as the snow has gone and the groundwarmed slightly. It is an advantage to get it well started before thetrees begin to shade the soil, perhaps as early as April. If sown later,especially in Midsummer, the hot sun will make it difficult for thegrass to start. The soil will need careful and th
. Garden guide; the amateur gardeners' handbook. Profusely illustrated with over 275 teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographs, all made expressly for this standard text book . s of the stones andin a channel along the top,suitable plants are grown When and How to Sow Grass may be sown as soon as the snow has gone and the groundwarmed slightly. It is an advantage to get it well started before thetrees begin to shade the soil, perhaps as early as April. If sown later,especially in Midsummer, the hot sun will make it difficult for thegrass to start. The soil will need careful and thorough seed may also be sown in the Autumn, from mid-August toOctober, with goodresults. If a day justbefore a rain can bechosen it will befound that the grasswill be up in a fewdays. If no rain is insight, give a thoroughsprinkling of water,but not with force,else the seed will bewashed out. If it iswindy, the seed willscatter badly, and „ « ^ . ^ .. , .. •^ Some flower gardens are so situated that it becomes Will not come up necessary to run a lattice-work fence around them. I A dainty, ornamental fence like the above, if evenly. painted white, is very suitable. LAWNS AND GRASS PLOTS 37 When lar^e areas areto be sown it is bestto divide the lawninto approximatelyten-foot squares andtreat each separate-ly, else it will bedifficult to sow uni-formly. To cover theseeds, the areasshould then be rakedin two directions,after which the lawnshould be thoroughlyrolled. This will com-pact the soil so thatthe seeds are in con-tact with the soil
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