LITTLE GARDENS 



from your back windows will be pleasanter If the 

 flower-beds are at the back of the yard, where 

 they can best be seen, and where they have the 

 park-hke preface of a lawn. 



If Mary Ann's feet have made appreciable 

 hollows in your grass-plot. In their goings and 

 comings, they can be filled In with light earth, 

 and the lawn may be reroUed. A smooth and 

 velvety lawn Is a delight to the eye, look we 

 never so lovingly on nature In the wild. Perfect 

 grass Is not to be grown overnight. In England, 

 where you see It at Its best, they have a saying 

 that, to make a lawn requires three or four cen- 

 turies. We can make one In less time than that 

 In our country, and you may see lawns of almost 

 English beauty among the unvlslted wilds of 

 upper Manhattan. There are some estates In 

 that forgotten quarter of the world, soon to be 

 blasted and leveled and chopped and covered 

 with flats, which recall the stately halls of Eng- 

 land, not so much In their buildings as In the 

 lovely settings of trees, vines, flower-beds and 

 billowy or lake-like grass fields. 



After planting your lawn you will put In 

 your bulbs — your crocuses, hyacinths, freesias, 



