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sandy, a mixture of Kentucky blue grass, 

 twenty -five per cent; creeping bent, thirty 

 per cent; Rhode Island bent, thirty per cent, 

 and fine-leaved fescue, fifteen per cent, is 

 recommended by Leonard Barron, an expert 

 on the care and making of lawns. The creep- 

 ing bent and fine -leaved fescue produce 

 quickly-growing, binding grasses that with- 

 stand drought. Mr. Barron recommends the 

 same mixture for sea-side lawns, substituting 

 beach grass for the fine-leaved fescue. Mr. 

 Samuel Parsons, the well-known landscape 

 architect, told me that there were certain 

 shady places in Trinity Churchyard, New 

 York, rarely reached by the sun, where it 

 had been almost impossible to get grass to 

 grow, but that he had succeeded in getting a 

 fine turf with wood meadow grass — (Poa nem- 

 oralis) , — having first spread over the surface a 

 couple of inches of fine humus or leaf-mold. 

 This wood meadow grass will thrive in shady 

 places where almost no other grass can be 

 made to grow. 



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