scribed in Sinclair's celebrated catalogue of crrasscs, which he made up for the 

 Duke of Bedford. Let the " South of Europe" cultivate it if they will, but 

 deliver it from American lawns ! Before this gets into print, perhaps a hundred 

 tom-noddy lawn-makers will order the pestilent stuff for their door-yards, where 

 they might better introduce the Canada thistle, for that can be extirpated. I 

 have heard these " lawn grasses" discussed till I am sick of the very name, as if 

 the beautiful turf of our natural pastures had neither beauty nor fragrance in 

 them. 



The finest grasses for American lawns we can have, are what grow on every 

 roadside throughout the Middle and Northern States, and are, simply, the Poas 

 trivialis, compressa, and pratensis, known under the common denominations of 

 spear, June, and blue-grass ; to these may be added the Poa viridis, or green- 

 grass of Dr. Muhlenberg, and the common white clover — Trifolium repcns. A 

 mixture of all these, or either variety of the Poa, with the white clover, make 

 the best possible American lawn grasses. Every spring of my life I have met 

 people running about, half demented, inquiring where they could get "lawn 

 grass seed," as if there was but one grass fit for it. The " lawn" grasses, 

 advertised usually by the seedsmen, are either nothing but the common grasses 

 of the country, or some tender "foreign" variety, totally unfit to withstand 

 our heats and frosts, while the Poas, and white clover, make a soft, beautiful, 

 compact turf, thick as wool, and requiring less cutting than any other grasses 

 whatever. 



Gardeners (page 1T9.) — A most sensible observer is Mr. Robert Weston. I 

 want no man about me as a designer in ground architecture, who is not fit to be 

 my companion, either in the parlor or at the table. A man of mind and cultiva- 

 tion he must be, to embrace all those requisites of taste and study which can 

 accomplish him in the modelling and laying out of grounds, and placing of 

 trees and shrubs. The sooner we Americans set about giving the right sort of 

 encouragement to men of this profession, the sooner we shall relieve ourselves of 

 the shoals of foreign charlatans, who throw themselves upon our credulity, and 

 impose upon our ignorance. 



A Suburban Residence. — Very well in style, but too much outside wall for the 

 inside room it contains. I fear our house architects are running into the extreme 

 in this particular. Why not have the outer walls of a house, instead of single, in- 

 close douhle rooms ? They would thus get much more space within a given range 

 of wall, and at far less cost, and the rooms would be more compact, warmer, and, 

 I think, in better character. The peculiar Italian style, too, can be quite as well 

 preserved. The flat water-tables at the eaves in this house, are objectionable in 

 point of utility, subjecting the roof water to detention and frost, and, in conse- 

 quence, to leakage, which will stain and injure the walls. Our modern American 

 architecture is too much assuming the gossamer style. After all, the old-fashioned, 

 nearly square, compact form of our best country houses of fifty years ago, with 

 some modern improvements in outside style, and conveniences within, are nearer 



