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This is especially necessary near the residence and around 

 flower- and carpet-beds where the grass must be kept green 

 and velvety all summer. The lawns should be cleaned and 

 rolled in spring, and all dead spots must be re-sown or 

 sodded over in a proper manner. When the soil becomes 

 impoverished, good dressings of clean manure in winter, or, 

 better still, a sprinkling of some concentrated fertilizer in 

 spring, must be resorted to. Fish guano, wood ashes, blood 

 and bone, bone dust and nitrate of soda are among the 

 most useful for this purpose ; they must be applied in 

 spring just before the grass begins to grow. 



The drives and walks if properly made need very 

 little or no care except cleaning, which should be done as 

 often as necessary. 



The flowers that form a part of the natural scenery will, 

 if properly selected and planted in suitable positions, for the 

 most part grow without attention. If a stronger sort should 

 usurp too much space and crowd out rarer varieties this 

 should be kept in check. From time to time new and 

 interesting kinds may be introduced in lawns and shrub- 

 beries. The flower-beds and borders should be kept 

 absolutely clean and neatly trimmed, and no weeds must be 

 allowed either there or in other spaces of bare ground as in 

 shrubberies and open ground around specimen trees. Hedge- 

 rows and lawns must be kept free from weeds of all kinds 

 such as dandelion, docks, evening primroses, and thistles. 

 The weeding of the lawn should be attended to the first 

 summer, and afterwards very little attention is necessary to 

 keep weeds away. 



Hedges, when intended to be cut, should be clipped 



