PREFACE 



The main hope in this book is that it will 

 result in more and better suburban gardens. 

 I believe this volume is the first that has 

 ever been written treating the making and 

 maintenance of the ornamental lawn from a 

 purely practical standpoint. Its purpose is 

 to enable anyone to establish a respectable 

 and adequate greensward in any sort of soil 

 where grass can be made to grow. 



The photographic illustrations, so graphic 

 that they are essential to the story, have with 

 few exceptions been made, expressly for the 

 present purpose, by Herbert E. Angell, Henry 

 Troth, Nathan R. Graves, and myself. 

 Plates XIX and xx are by courtesy of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Thanks for information in the matter of 

 seeds and mixtures are especially accorded 

 to W. E. Marshall and L. W. Wheeler; for 

 cooperation in obtaining many of the pict- 

 ures to John T. Withers, John Dunbar, and 

 J. Featherstone. L. B. 



New York, igo6. 



