10 PRACTICAL FLORICULTURE. 



and harrowing, and when good material is at hand, and 

 immediate effect desired, such plots may be turfed or sod- 

 ded instead of being sown. 



The mixture of grass seed best suited for forming lawns 

 is composed as follows : 



12 quarts Rhode Island Bent Grass. 

 4 " Creeping Bent Grass. 

 10 tc Red Top Grass. 

 3 " Sweet Vernal Grass. 

 2 " Kentucky Blue Grass. 

 1 " White Clover. 



1 Bushel. 



From 2 to 5 Bushels are required per acre, according to 

 the condition of the soil, more being required on a poor 

 soil than on a rich one. 



Laying out the Flower Garden, In the vicinity of 

 New York, the taste displayed in this matter is certainly 

 not very flattering to us ; compared with that shown in 

 the suburbs of London or Paris, we are wofully behind. 

 Our city merchants annually build hundreds of houses, the 

 cost of which ranges from $10,000 to $50,000 each, but 

 the flower garden surrounding the house is in nineteen 

 cases out of twenty left to the tender mercies of some ig- 

 noramus who styles himself a " Landscaper," and who 

 generally manages before he is through to make the pro- 

 prietor appear to be utterly devoid of taste, if not actually 

 ridiculous. A worthy of this stamp held kingly sway as 

 a " Landscaper " in the vicinity of New York a few years 

 ago, an\I has left behind him some wonderful specimens of 

 his art ; he was great on " Sarpentine " walks, as he called 

 them, and had a true artist's horror of straight lines. It 

 would have been useless for Euclid to have attempted to 

 demonstrate that the nearest distance between two points 

 was a straight line. Terry knew better than that, and 

 curved accordingly. One of the most marked of his 



