EXECUTION OF SOME OF THE LANDSCAPE FEATURES 85 
himself, while another cuts it loose with a spade, as shown 
in Fig. 77. When the sod is laid, it is unrolled on the land 
and then firmly beaten down. Land that is to be sodded 
should be soft on top, so that the sod can be well pounded 
into it. If the sod is not well pounded down, it will settle 
unevenly and present a bad surface, and will also dry out and 
perhaps not live through a dry spell. It is almost. impossible 
to pound down sod too firm. If the land is freshly plowed, 
it is important that the borders that are sodded be an inch or 
two lower than the adjacent land, because the land will set- 
tle in the course of afew weeks. In a dry time, the sod may be 
covered from a half inch to an inch with fine, mellow soil as a 
mulch. The grass should grow through this soil without diffi- 
culty. Upon terraces and steep banks, the sod may be held 
in place by driving wooden pegs through it. 
A combination of 
sodding and seeding. ; 
An “economical sodding”’ is described in ‘American Garden” 
(Fig. 78): ‘To obtain sufficient sod of suitable quality for cov- 
ering terrace-slopes or small blocks that for any reason cannot 
well be seeded is often a difficult matter. In the accompany- 
ing illustration we show how a surface of sod may be used to 
good advantage over a larger area than its real measurement 
represents. This is done by laying the sods, cut in strips from 
78. Economical sodding, the spaces being seeded. 
