14 Making a Lawn 



of a successful lawn. The only reason, 

 as far as I can see, why people are not 

 versed in this matter is that they have 

 been frightened by the botanical names 

 of grasses, which seem wholly unsuitable 

 and too difficult of pronunciation for 

 such commonplace things. There is, how- 

 ever, just as much individuality in a plant 

 produced from a grass seed as in the 

 choicest plant in a greenhouse. One kind 

 of grass seed will produce a low-growing 

 plant while another grows high ; one wants 

 a moist situation, another a dry one ; some 

 will germinate in the shade, others will 

 not, and so on through the list. If a 

 person knows each kind and its possi- 

 bilities and requirements, he will be able 

 to choose the grass best suited for his 

 wants, and by careful trials arrange the 

 mixtures with better success than the man 

 in the wholesale house who is obliged to 



