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occasionally, at somewhat lengthy intervals, 

 looks irregular at all times, and when a great 

 length of grass is removed, exposing the lower 

 more or less yellowish under-texture, there is 

 an unpleasant alternation of ragged long 

 green and short yellowish brown. Of course 

 if clover has been used freely in the mixture, 

 and if some of the fescues are growing, the 

 yellow effect of a closely cut lawn is not ap- 

 parent, that is, so long as these maintain their 

 hold on the ground. But in a properly pre- 

 pared soil and a properly managed lawn they 

 will be eventually crowded out as the per- 

 manent grasses gain control. 



LEAVE OR REMOVE THE CLIPPINGS i 



The clippings frorn the use of the lawn 

 mower may, generally, be left on the surface 

 of the lawn, not raked off. If the lawn be 

 given constant attention, and cut whenever 

 it needs it, so as to keep it as uniformly as 

 possible at a height of about two inches, the 

 clippings cannot be considered as an ob- 

 jection. Very often indeed they are positive- 

 ly beneficial, as they act as a mulch to the 

 newly exposed soil. If a suddenly hot spell 



