. Facts for farmers; also for the family circle. A compost of rich materials for all land-owners, about domestic animals and domestic economy; farm buildings; gardens, orchids, and vineyards; and all farm crops, tools, fences, fertilization, draining, and irrigation. 3, byA. J. JOHNSON, In the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the SouthernlUstrict of New York. & KEXT, ;ttrcctj)pf-fl ari^ , 183 WiUiam Sh-ttt, .V. i; [ FRONTISPIECE,]PLATE XV. (Page 500.) This picture is placed here for the same purpose as No. XIV. inits place. That to indicate t
. Facts for farmers; also for the family circle. A compost of rich materials for all land-owners, about domestic animals and domestic economy; farm buildings; gardens, orchids, and vineyards; and all farm crops, tools, fences, fertilization, draining, and irrigation. 3, byA. J. JOHNSON, In the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the SouthernlUstrict of New York. & KEXT, ;ttrcctj)pf-fl ari^ , 183 WiUiam Sh-ttt, .V. i; [ FRONTISPIECE,]PLATE XV. (Page 500.) This picture is placed here for the same purpose as No. XIV. inits place. That to indicate the vegetable garden—this to mark theentrance among the flowers. What woman looking upon this lovelyvase will not feel a desire to be a producer of such beautiful things ?Feeling that desire, she will be inclined to read what the authorsa3^s of The Flower Garden. Reading of flowers, she will neverbe content until she possesses them. And they will mark herelevation to a higher order of civilization as distinctly as this platemarks the entrance to the portion of this book devoted to a goodpurpose. It is for this that the picture was designed—to entice herto enter upon a path that leads to pleasant groves, to peace andhappiness. 49^S8 Urc. 32.] LAWNS. 515. SECTION TO MAKE AND HOW TO KEEP AND PLANTS SUITABLE FOR LAWNS. COUNTRY house without a lawn! it is a housein a desert! It is not a structure in the midst ofbeauty. There is nothing—not even expensivestatuary, flowers, and shrubbery—that adds somuch to the surrounding embellishments of afarm-house or suburban residence as green grass upona well-kept lawn, and it is a beauty that is permanentand inexpensive. If tlie ground is well under-drainedand the grass well dressed in the fall, it will start freshas soon as the snow is off, and often earlier, and itkeeps green through the most severe drouth uponground that has been well prepared. With here andtliere a shade, what a lovely sight it is to see
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