x CONTENTS 
PAGES 
The terrace : : : : - 3 . ° 3 62 
The bounding lines . : : : é 7 : : : . 64 
Walks and drives. : . ‘ fs . 67 
The question of drainage, cartes and patiens ‘ F . 69 
The materials. ; : ‘i 5 7 7 : ‘ s 43 
Making the borders . . . f E ‘ 3 c 3 74 
Making the lawn. : : , ; fs 17 
Preparing the cous, $ 5 i i . 77 
The kind of grass : ‘ . ‘ P r 2. 8 
When and how to sow the aed 4 . 5 5 “ s 80 
Securing a firm sod . - 4 5 ‘ : : : “ Sl 
The mowing. ; 7 ‘ . : . : 5 . 82 
Fall treatment . ‘ ‘ “ ‘ - sf . : . 82 
Spring treatment . F 5 ; A : . . . 88 
Watering lawns ‘ . fi : . F ‘i A . 88 
Sodding the lawn : 5 < 6 A . 84 
A combination of sodding ail senitine : 3 . ‘ » 85 
Sowing with sod ‘ ‘ ‘ $ ; ‘ . . 86 
Other ground covers . ‘ : ; : 3 : - 86 
CHAPTER IV 
Tue Hanpiine or THE Lanp ‘ ‘ i a Fi ; F 87-114 
The draining of the land . : 5 E . . 5 : . 88 
Trenching and subsoiling ; F i ‘ . ‘ : « 390! 
Preparation of the surface . : : : : 2 : eo 192 
The saving of moisture. yf, f AE 
Hand tools for weeding and dipteonens tillage ana be hgh work 101 
The hoe. , » s ‘ ‘ ‘ . : ‘ » 101 
Scarifiers . : : ‘i - < A : fs - » 105 
Hand-weeders . é F : 3 3 . ° - 106 
Trowels and their kind ‘ 5 5 c ‘ ‘ » 106 
Rollers ; ; - ‘ ‘ ‘ $ ‘é . 108 
Markers. . 7 Z a ‘ ‘ ‘ . 5 . 108 
Enriching the land . ‘ “ 5 : . . . - 110 
CHAPTER V 
Tue HanpLine oF THE PLANTS. * ; ‘ ‘ A - 115-177 
Sowing the seeds ; ; ‘ é : . . . . . 116 
Propagating by cuttings . f . 7 Z . . . . 118 
Dormant stem-cuttings . . 5 . . . . » 118 
