WHICH IS BETTER: TURF OR SEED ? 33 



you can (provided your soil condition is right) 

 reproduce a lawn of a given grass. Secondly 

 — and this is by far the greater advantage — 

 you get an immediate effect which is sometimes 

 worth the extra expenditure of money, espe- 

 cially surrounding a house. For narrow 

 borders of grass between the walks and flower 

 beds turf is desirable. It is also the proper 

 way of marking the boundaries of a newly 

 laid out piece of ground before seeding. 

 Turfing the edges assures a true line, and the 

 seeding of the body can be done more thor- 

 oughly. 



Sometimes it becomes desirable to make a 

 lawn in the summer time, in which case it is 

 far better to rely on laid sods. If cut and 

 relaid with as little delay as possible on pro- 

 perly prepared ground — the surface being 

 raked loosely so as to assure immediate con- 

 tact with the roots — it will surely grow. Turf 

 can be laid at any time when the ground can 

 be worked, and is invaluable in that respect 

 where cost is not a consideration. It is 

 understood, however, that in all such cases, 

 it must be watered persistently and a lawn 

 made thus will need for the first twelve months 

 of its existence a great deal more attention 



