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ling from garden to garden digging up the 

 dandelions which they sell in the cities for 

 salad purposes. These scavengers should 

 be encouraged. They save annually thous- 

 sands of lawns from the presence of this weed. 

 To a certain extent, it must be confessed that 

 dandelions and daisies are pretty adjuncts 

 to the grass plot. The danger is, however, 

 that they are likely to overwhelm the grass; 

 and, moreover, though the golden flowers of 

 the dandelion are pretty enough in all truth, 

 yet the globular white seed balls are far from 

 decorative. When digging the roots out of 

 the lawn, the worker may at the same time 

 repair the damage by treading the surface 

 till the hole is closed. Where bad patches 

 have occurred, resulting in ugly large sized 

 holes, it will be better, however, to scatter 

 over the surface a little good quality garden 

 loam or soil from the compost heap, and 

 finish oflF by scattering a pinch or two of lawn 

 seed mixture, beating the surface well with 

 the back of the spade. 



Plantains are more easily dug out than 

 dandelions. They cannot be made use of 

 in any way, but they will seed very freely and 

 soon become a pest on the untended lawn. 



