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and coarse for the lawn. Crimson clover is 

 excellent, for it is an annual, and it does not 

 become unsightly in the lawn. White clover is 

 perhaps best, since it not only helps the grass 

 but looks well in the sod. One or two pounds 

 of seed is generally sufficient for an acre. 



At first the weeds will come up. Do not pull 

 them. Mow the lawn as soon as there is any 

 growth large enough to mow. Of course, the 

 lawn-mower is best, but one can have a good 

 place without it. Perhaps a hand lawn-mower 

 (one with large wheels and not less than 16 -inch 

 cut) can be used to keep the sward close just 

 about the house ; then the field- mower may be 

 used now and then for the remainder. Here is 

 another advantage, as I have said, of the open- 

 centered yard which I have recommended ; it is 

 easily mown. It would be a fussy matter to 

 mow a yard planted after the fashion of Fig. 88; 

 but one like Fig. 89 is easily managed. 



The borders should be planted thickly. Plow 

 up the strip. Never plant these trees and 

 bushes in holes cut in the sod. Scatter the 

 bushes and ti-ees promiscuously in the narrow 

 border. In home grounds, it is easy to run 

 through these borders occasionally with a culti- 

 vator, for the first year or two. Make the edges 

 of the border irregular. Plant the lowest bushes 

 on the inner edge toward the house. 



