THE PRACTICAL FLOWER GARDEN 



rolled. About a ton of cottonseed meal to 

 the acre, and the same quantity of the bone 

 meal and wood ashes mixture, may be used 

 to advantage. 



This treatment should carry the lawns and 

 grass paths through even our hot and dry 

 summers; and if there are places worn by 

 much use, a solution of nitrate of soda — one 

 pound of nitrate to forty gallons of water — 

 can be applied, which will have an immedi- 

 ate effect. This must also be thoroughly 

 watered in should there not be rain within 

 twenty-four hours after its application. 



Another excellent tonic for the grass is hen 

 manure mixed with earth, equal parts of 

 each, and scattered over the grass at the 

 rate of a bushel of the mixture for about a 

 thousand square feet of surface. This also 

 will produce great growth. 



Sometimes, in August, if the lawn looks a 

 little worn and badly, it may be given 

 another dose of the cottonseed meal, which 

 must again be watered in thoroughly. 



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