The Laying-out of Lawns ^j 



dredweight of clean seed. Generally, however, 

 because of cost, the seed is not sufficiently cleaned, 

 and in this case double and, on lighter ground, 

 treble the above amount is required. Timothy 

 grass, on account of its fine and heavy grain, 

 does not mix well with the other seeds, and 

 therefore to ten pounds of timothy [Phleum pra- 

 tense) I add one pound of white clover {Trifo- 

 lium repens), one pound red clover {Trifolium 

 pratense^, one pound of yellow clover, and one 

 pound of sweet or Bokhara clover [Melilotus 

 officinalis), and later spread this mixture, which 

 is of equally heavy grain, over the space which 

 has already been sown with the lighter mixture. 

 Then the field is harrowed and rolled lengthways 

 and crossways. When the greater part of the 

 seed is ripe the next summer, I have it beaten 

 off with rakes or small stakes before mowing. In 

 good weather the greater part of the fallen seeds 

 sprout again, whereby I obtain a fairly thick 

 grass turf in one year, which otherwise I could 

 not expect from a sown meadow for several years, 

 unless I were to sow three times as thickly, which 

 would be very expensive, since the harvesting 

 and threshing of grass seed is rather difficult and 

 depends very much upon the weather. 



