THE PRACTICAL FLOWER GARDEN 



An attractive treatment for very shady 

 walks is made by laying flat, irregular stones 

 as stepping-stones, the sides of the rows of 

 stones to be quite uneven, and the spaces 

 filled with moss, rock fern and other rock 

 plants. 



For the last three years there has been 

 drought in our part of the country, and hun- 

 dreds of people have tramped over my grass 

 paths, which are never watered; but the grass 

 has resisted the drought wonderfully, and the 

 turf remains thick and green. During dry 

 weather the grass is allowed to grow rather 

 long, being mown only every two weeks or 

 so, and in August it is helped along with 

 more cottonseed meal or the wood ashes 

 and bone meal mixture. 



It is a mistake to mow the lawn too early 

 in the spring, as the grass does better during 

 the summer if allowed to become five or six 

 inches high before the first mowing, and after 

 October it should not be cut at all. 



Lawns in England are preserved for gener- 

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