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good color on sandy seasides and should thrive in 

 California. Eastward they also have a "beach" 

 grass known to dealers and botanists as Ammophila 

 arenaria, or arundinacea, that is successfully used 

 on seacoast embankments to hold dry, loose soils and 

 drifting sands. In California the Australian rye 

 grass is much used for shady places and for lawns 

 where less care and water can be given a lazy 

 man's grass, but inferior to Kentucky blue grass. 



WHITE OR DUTCH CLOVER 



White or Dutch clover is often used to mix with 

 blue grass in lawns. The clover seed, being much 

 heavier, should be sown separately and in quantity 

 about one-fourth. Clover is also excellent for con- 

 trol of Bermuda grass. Many prefer a lawn wholly 

 of white clover, and if so, a pound of seed will sow 

 very nearly twice the area that a pound of grass seed 

 will. It thrives with less water and is superior to 

 Kentucky grass for sandy soils and also does better 

 close to the ocean where it requires still less water 

 than it does inland. 



Prof. E. J. Wickson says that clover is favorably 

 regarded by him for the reason that it is more ten- 

 der than grass and therefore more easily cut with a 

 dull lawn mower, a type of machine he claims to 

 have constantly and permanently on hand, though 

 boasting of no exclusiveness in the ownership of 

 such equipment. 



Clover lawns usually need inoculation with nitri- 

 fying bacteria. There are several ways of getting 

 this. The most primitive, most troublesome, yet 

 most effective way is to get soil from a very healthy, 

 vigorous growth of clover and scatter it over the 

 new or sick clover lawn and wash it in with water. 

 This is easy if you know such a lawn that you can 



