. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. LAWNS AND GRASS PLOTS 1!) know that the roots of some grasses go deeper than oth
. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. LAWNS AND GRASS PLOTS 1!) know that the roots of some grasses go deeper than others; for this reason good mixtures utilize the whole top soil most advantageously. Reputable seedsmen can be depended upon to supply proper mixtures for various purposes. Go to them, tell them your soil conditions, and they will give you the proper mixture. Kentucky Rlue Grass is no doubt the most used. It does not make a good sod the first year, but improves in subsequent years. It succeeds admirably on the Hmestone soils. In Midsummer, it is apt to become somewhat brown. Canada Blue Grass is useful for dry and. A lawn, soft and smooth as velvet clayey soils and seems able to resist drought. Many of the Fescues are^extremely valuable. The fine-leaved Sheep's Fescue has the nar- rowest blades. The Hard I^'escue is useful in forming a dense mat and stands drought. Besides these, the Creeping, the Sheep's and the Meadow Fescues all form sods, and are useful for mixtures. For immediate results, but not lasting, a little Italian Rye Grass can be used. Red Top seems to succeed even on sfightly acid soils, and forms a dense mat. The Sweet Vernal Grass is odorous and gives a softness to the lawn. Wood Meadow and Rough Stalked Meadow Grass both succeed well in the shade. White Clover is also useful in mixtures; it forms a dense ground cover and thrives in most soils and climates. A quart, which is a Uttle over half a pound, should be used for every three hundred square feet of surface.
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