LAWNS AND THEIR 

 BEAUTIFICATION 



SOME OLD AND NEW SHRUBS AND GRASSES 



PERSONS who have visited me at Santa Rosa 

 in recent years are almost always greatly 

 interested in the lawn about my dwelling. 

 At a little distance this looks very much like 

 any other lawn that is well-covered with grass. 

 But on closer inspection it appears that the lawn is 

 carpeted with a plant that is obviously not a grass. 

 It is in reality a species of verbena, very much 

 more closely related to the familiar flower of that 

 name than any other plant in cultivation. 



This anomalous substitute for lawn grass is a 

 plant which was briefly referred to in an earlier 

 chapter as a relative of the verbena. It is known 

 as Lippia repens, and by some European botanists 

 classified as Lippia canescens. It is a plant indige- 

 nous to Chile, from which country I received the 

 seed from which the new lawn plant was developed 

 a number of years ago. 



[VOLUME X CHAPTER VIII] 



