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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



SGPTIU.IBER 7, 1911. 



GUINEA PIGS WEED LAWNS. 



W. C. Egan has unearthed the follow- 

 ing in a report from the United States 

 consul at Nottingham, England: 



"A curious, but successful experi- 

 ment is being made on a number of pri- 

 vate lawns in Kent, and is about to be 

 tried by a golf club in the neighbor 

 hood of Greenhithe. The idea is the 

 novel one of substituting the guinea 

 pig for the mowing machine and the 

 weed killer. 



"Around the lawn is arranged a low 

 wire barrier, and into the inclosure are 

 turned a number of guinea pigs; or 

 better, a passage is made from their 

 hutch to the lawn. The animals at 

 once attack all the worst weeds — the 

 plantains first, then the dandelions and 

 daisies. These broad-leaved plants, 

 which no mowing machine will touch, 

 are killed by the persistent cutting of 

 the guinea pigs' teeth. When they 

 have finished the weeds, which are 

 broad-leaved and succulent, they pro- 

 ceed to the grass. In a short time the 

 lawn looks as if it had been cut by 

 the closest machine. The persistent 

 cutting of the leaves kills the weeds, 

 which can stand almost any other 

 treatment, but does no harm to the 

 grass. 



' ' One lawn, formerly af mass of 

 weeds, has been made to grow nothing 

 but the finer grasses. Another is still 

 under process of treatment. The half 

 of it in which the guinea pigs were 

 first set to work has been cut quite 

 evenly and very closely. For golfing it 

 is as fast again as it was under the ad- 

 ministration of the mowing machine, 

 and not a weed is visible. The other 

 half, where the animals have just been 

 turned loose, is a mass of dandelions. 



"In this neighborhood it has been 

 found that the guinea pigs do not 

 suffer at all by being left to work in 

 winter as well as in summer. Indeed, 

 they are healthier than under the usual 

 treatment of those who keep them as 

 pets. An astonishing demand for the 

 animals has grown up in the neigh- 

 borhood, and if the inland golf clubs, 

 which have great difiBculties with plan- 

 tains, take to the new method the 

 guinea-pig population is likely to go 

 up in the ratio that the natural fe- 

 cundity of the animal suggests." 



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