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GARDENING. 



Sept. /, 



The Lawn. 



THE IflWN. 



Now is a good time to repair your old 

 lawn or lay down a new one; by attend- 

 ing to this right away, either as regards 

 sodding or sowing, the grass will get a 

 good start before winter sets in. In the 

 case of old lawns, if there are any bare 

 spots it will be well to dig them over, 

 breaking tine and pulverizing the ground, 

 adding some fine-rotted manure to it, and 

 sod the patches; or it you cannot get 

 good sods sow some grass seed on the 

 1 lenr spots, and tread it in with the feet 

 111 rake and roll it in, and leave all level. 

 |.;cd Top and Kentucky blue grass, each 

 Miotic or both together, make our fittest 

 lawns, and in clay grounds use plenty of 

 white clover with them. 



Weeds in old lawns will be showing 

 themselves again; broad-leaved plantain, 

 (locks, chickweed and moss are apt to be 

 irotiblesotne again in fall. The plantain, 

 clocks and dandelions have to be plucked 

 nr cut out, and the moss and chickweed 

 raked out with steel-toothed rakes, and 

 I he ground should then be given a good 

 lop-dressing of fine rich soil to eticourage 

 tlic grass to grow. 



In preparing a new lawn have the 

 ground evenly graded, deeply plowed or 

 (lug, well enriched and mellow, then rake 

 it level and smooth and sow the seed, 

 which should be raked in and then tramped 

 (ir roll it. .\11 this sort of work that is 

 done now eases upon the rush of work in 

 spring. Ut making a lawn be careful 

 that all the hollows in it caused by the 

 removal of tree roots or rocks are well 

 lilled and solidly packed from the bottom 

 lip so that no sags may show there in 

 later years. We always prepare our 

 grass seed for sowing by mixing it with 

 moistish sand or light loam sifted through 

 a fine sieve, say half the bulk of loam and 

 half of seetl; it this be well mixed on the 

 barn or other floor you can sow it easily 

 and evenly, no matter if there is con- 

 siderable wind blowing. 



liarh' in summer we prepared several 

 acres of new lawn, but did not sow it in 

 grass for two reasons; first we were 

 afraid the season was so far advanced 

 and the heat and drouth of summer so 

 near that the young grass wouldn't get a 

 good start in life before it would be killed 

 out; secondly because there seemed to be 

 a deal of rough grass seed in the ground. 

 A heavy sole of natural grass sprang up 

 inimediatel}', giving the ground a fine 

 coating of green, but this grass is the 

 annual barn grass, and it would all die 

 this winter and leave the ground as bare 

 as it was in spring. Instead of allowing 

 this, however, we are going to plow over 

 all of this newly prepared land, harrow it 

 fine, rake off the old grass roots, and sow 

 afresh with Red Top and Blue Grass. 



Texas Star Thistle.— E. O. N., Ten- 

 nessee, sends us a flower of this beautiful 

 annual {Ceritaurea Americana) for name. 

 It is an easily-grown, tall-stemmed, large, 

 pretty purple-flowered species well worth 

 growing in any garden. There is also a 

 varietj' of it called Hallii, the same in 

 every way as the parent except in the 

 color of its blossoms, which are of a deep 

 rich purple. Grow both, they are worth 

 having. 



ialTUATlON WANTKD- A Banlcnpr. well expert- 

 Knows the care of CTeenlionsefl iind frames. Midijle 

 (»referrecl. In » Kood landscape Kardener. AddresR 



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