OF THE LAWN 



thus giving a spotted effect which can only be 

 remedied by a second sowing on the places 

 where the grass is thin. In a still day, and a 

 damp one, when the air is rather heavy, the seed 

 can be scattered with a reasonable degree of 

 evenness by the amateur gardener. It is a good 

 plan to sow across from north to south, and 

 cross-sow from east to west. In this way you 

 are pretty sure to miss no part of the ground. 

 As a general thing the seed will germinate in 

 four or five days, and in a week the soil will 

 show a film of green over its entire surface. A 

 month later the soil will be quite hidden by the 

 grass. Then you can form an opinion of what 

 your lawn will be when the sward is fully estab- 

 lished on it. It will take it all of one season 

 to thicken up and " stool out," but while it is 

 doing this it will afford a vast amount of pleas- 

 ure to the maker and his family. No lawn is 

 at its best before the second or third year. 



MOST amateur lawn-makers are sorely 

 tempted to make use of the lawn-mower 

 before the newly seeded lawn is ready for it. I 

 would earnestly advise waiting until the grass 

 gets to be at least four or five inches tall before 



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