. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. LAW 344 LEA Turfing. If seed be employed, the fol- } to compel the returning sap to organize lowing is a good selection, and in the itself externally as roots, instead of requisite proportions for an acre. The best season for sowing is during moist weather in March. On 1 acre of new lawn, sow the fol- lowing grass seeds: Festuca durius- cula, 4| lbs.; Avena flavescens, H Ih.; LoUium perenne, 30 lbs.; Poa nemoralis, 3 1bs.; P. sempervivens, 2 lbs.; vialis, 2i lbs.; Trifolium repens, 11 lbs., and T. minus, 3 lbs. This is a sufficient quantity
. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. LAW 344 LEA Turfing. If seed be employed, the fol- } to compel the returning sap to organize lowing is a good selection, and in the itself externally as roots, instead of requisite proportions for an acre. The best season for sowing is during moist weather in March. On 1 acre of new lawn, sow the fol- lowing grass seeds: Festuca durius- cula, 4| lbs.; Avena flavescens, H Ih.; LoUium perenne, 30 lbs.; Poa nemoralis, 3 1bs.; P. sempervivens, 2 lbs.; vialis, 2i lbs.; Trifolium repens, 11 lbs., and T. minus, 3 lbs. This is a sufficient quantity to cover the ground closely in a short time. In very dry weather all lawns should be watered, and if a little guano and muriate of lime be dissolved in the water passing downwards below the wood. The bending back is to assist in this object by preventing the expend- iture of sap in the formation or rather completion of leaves, and the silver sand is to secure the drainage so neces- sary to cuttings. " In most cases, this is sufficient; but it must be obvious, that the exact man- ner in which the layering is effected is unimportant, and that it may be varied according to circumstances. Thus, Mr. James Rlunro describes a successful method of layering brittle-branched plants by simply slitting the shoot at it will keep the surface gently moist; the bend, and inserting a stone at that even in dry weather. place ; {Gardener^s Magazine, ix. 302 ;) A good kind of grass for improving a : and Mr. Knight found that, in cases of lawn, is Crested Dogstail,- it may be difficult rooting, the process is facili- sown in March. Bush-harrow the lawn ' tated by ringing the shoot just below in order to stir up the soil a little for the tongue about midsummer when the the seed, which should be sown broad- | leaves upon th» layers had acquired their cast when the ground is damp, passing a garden roller over it when the ground becomes sufficiently dry.—Gard. Chron. LAWN RAKE, See art
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