HOW TO MAKE A LAWN ONCE FOR ALL 1 1 



At the same time, even though one may 

 not be able to make complete lawns before 

 the house is built, it is very often perfectly 

 practicable to make the larger lawn areas 

 before the house is built — a piece of foresight 

 that will go far toward giving a comfortable 

 setting and homelike atmosphere to the new 

 dwelling. The appearance of newness is 

 always disturbing, and so long as heavy con- 

 struction work is being done around the home, 

 there is a feeling of unrest that is disturbing 

 to one's piece of mind. 



Within the immediate vicinity of the build- 

 ing it is not so easy to preserve intact the lawn 

 that was made before the building was begun. 

 There are excavations for the foundation of 

 the house and for the cellar space, the carting 

 in of bricks, lumber, and other construction 

 material, a majority of which will be dumped 

 down or piled up very near to the place where 

 building is going on so that they may be 

 handled with the least expenditure of labour. 



I have seen the lawn laid two years in 

 advance and that too on a suburban lot. The 

 ground space which was to be utilized by the 

 builders was boarded over temporarily and 

 although the grass was lost for a season, the 



