GARDEN YARD "^^ 



blanket and vegetable matter that will do the 

 lawn good. Every few years I cover the lawn 

 with barnyard manure, in the fall; let it lie 

 there all winter and that which we rake off in 

 the spring we put on the garden. This is a 

 little trouble, but I want to say that I made 

 more money creating my lawn than I ever did in 

 taking a fat ox from the stall, or a bushel of 

 potatoes from my cellar. 



" A man will stand on the public road in front 

 of my place, and give me more for my property 

 on account of my lawn; but money is not the 

 only thing in the world. The lawn makes the 

 boys and girls want to stay on the farm. It is 

 on our lawn that we spend our spare moments on 

 Sundays, entertaining our friends, in the sum- 

 mer; and there, beneath the shade of ' the old 

 apple-tree,' the smoke curls more beautifully 

 from my chimney than from any other I ever 

 saw." 



So there is no reason why you should not have 

 a good lawn, as well as a good garden, if you 

 will supply what the grass roots want. And 

 it is true that the lawn is a genuine asset. The 

 man who is too busy to bother with making a 

 lawn, or to sit on it with his family in spare 

 moments, even though it takes a good deal of 

 contriving to spare those moments, is the man 



