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strong boy can use it, and it possesses the advantages 

 of cutting close and evenly, collecting not only the 

 cut grass but scattered leaves as it goes, and, withal, 

 most completely rolling the turf at the same time. 

 We are, too, not awoke by scythe whetting at four 

 o'clock in the morning, to secure the dew upon the 

 grass, as the dry part of the day is perhaps the best 

 for the use of the mowing-machine. 



There is, then, no excuse for weeds or bunchy 

 grass with a mowing-machine, as the whole opera- 

 tion, as here described, is done in less time than 

 was formerly occupied in the scythe in mowing 

 alone. 



4. Evenness in height is a matter of importance 

 for the lawn ; for if we have grasses together, some of 

 which make three inches of growth while the majority 

 are growing but one inch, the whole look uneven 

 and ugly. 



The annexed cut (fig. 31) shows the effects of this, 

 the taller grass being a root of cocksfoot, which is not 



Fig. 31. The Taller Grasses. 



only bunchy, but its leaves are too broad for a good 

 lawn grass, and it grows twice as fast as the smaller 



