SOWING THE SEED 



rilHE nearest thing, by way of compar- 

 ison, to a lawn is a bed of plants 

 that you set out in your garden every 

 spring. When you think it is planting 

 time you go to this bed with spade or 

 fork and turn the earth up from the deep 

 bottom, putting in plenty of well-rotted 

 manure, thus ministering to the soil ac- 

 cording to its needs. Then you set out 

 the plants, and if weeds grow up you dig 

 them out, after which you water the spot 

 intelligently. For this labor your reward 

 comes to you in the shape of an abun- 

 dance of bloom and foliage. 



Just as truly is a lawn a bed of plants 

 needing an equal amount of treatment. 



Grass is nothing but a collection of thou- 

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