THE PRACTICAL FLOWER GARDEN 



26th, last year, seed was sown on a grass-path 

 that had never been made but had just 

 grown. The ground was uneven and the 

 path needed grading. The sod was so good, 

 however, that it was a wrench to take it up, 

 and I fled from the place during the opera- 

 tion. Upon my return, a week after the grass 

 seed had been sown, I found a broad, level 

 path, already colored with a faint tinge of 

 green. Although the drought was extreme, 

 enough water was forthcoming to wet the 

 ground every other day at sunset. Two or 

 three blessed showers, each of an hour's dur- 

 ation, saved the grass at critical periods, and, 

 on September 19th, less than four weeks after 

 sowing, the grass had become so long that it 

 was necessary to mow it, the knives of the 

 machine being set very high. 



The first week in September, two years 

 ago, seed was sown on a grass-walk twenty 

 feet wide, which winds for four hundred feet 

 up a hill on a gentle curve, and ends at the 

 top in a circle fifty feet across. The grass 



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