SODDING LAWNS 



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broadcast over the area and rolled into the land. 

 While it is preferable that these pieces should lie 

 right side up, it is not necessary that they should, 

 if they are cut thin, and if they are sown when 

 the weather is cool and moist. Sowing pieces of 

 sod is a most excellent practice in lands in which 

 it is difficult to secure a catch from seed. 



178. Economical sodding. 



An " economical sodding" is described in Ameri- 

 can Garden (Fig. 178): "To obtain sufficient 

 sod of suitable quality for covering terrace - slopes 

 or small blocks that for any reason cannot well be 

 seeded, is often a difficult matter. In the accom- 

 panying illustration we show how a surface of sod 

 may be used to good advantage over a larger area 

 than its real measurement represents. This is 

 done by laying the sods, cut in strips from six to 

 ten inches wide, in lines and cross -lines, and after 

 filling the spaces with good soil, sowing these 

 spaces with grass -seed. Should the catch of seed 

 for any reason be poor, the sod of the strips will 

 tend to spread over the spaces between them, and 



