THE LAWN: HOW TO MAKE 

 IT AND HOW TO TAKE 

 CARE OF IT 



HE owner of the average 

 small home seldom goes to 

 the expense of employing the 

 professional gardener to do 

 the work of lawn-making. 

 Sometimes he cannot afford 

 to do so. Sometimes skilled 

 labor is not obtainable. The consequence is, in 

 the majority of cases, the lawn, — or what, by 



courtesy, is called by that name, — ^is a sort of 

 evolution which is an improvement on the orig- 

 inal conditions surrounding the home, but which 

 never reaches a satisfactory stage. We see such 

 lawns everywhere — trough, uneven, bare in spots, 

 anything but attractive in a general way, and 

 but little better than the yard which has been 

 given no attention, were it not for the shrubs 

 and plants that have been set out in them. The 

 probabilities are that if you ask the owner of 

 such a place why he has no lawn worth the name, 

 he will give one or the other of the reasons I have 



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