The Laying Out and Upkeep of 

 Golf Courses and Putting Greens. 



By MARTIN H. F. SUTTON, F.L.S. 



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CONTENTS. 

 INTRODUCTION. THROUGH THE COURSE— Planning the Cotose— 



SlTTJATIOX — DeAIXAGB ROIL IMPORTED SoU, ENRICHING SOIL QUANTITY OF 



Seed — Selection of Seeds — Inspection of Courses — Sowing Grass Seeds. 

 PUTTING GREENS— Seaside Links— Soil— Seed v. Turf— Cost of Turfing- 

 Cost of Seeding — Time to lay Turves — Natural Tuef — Selectiox of Seeds — 

 Named Grasses — Quantity' of Seed — Time to Sow — Sowing Seeds — After- 

 treatment — Water — The Improvement and Upkeep of Greens — Plant Food — 

 Duplicate Greens — Thin Tuef — Mossy Turf — Weeds — Lawn Sand — Mowing 

 AND Rolling — Clover in Greens — Grass Nursery — Worms — Grazing Golf 

 Courses— Fairy Rings— Fine Sand. TEES. BRIEF HINTS. 



Illustrated with numerous interesting photographs. 

 In paper cover. Price 2s. 6d. net. 

 ' With the book is incorporated part of a lecture delivered by ilr. Sutton before the 

 Royal Horticultural Society, and the Avhole forms an admirable treatise on the arts of green- 

 keeping and green-maldng. The questions of soils, grasses, manuring, drainage, watering, 

 and general treatment both of the course and of the putting greens are f uUj' and exhaustively 

 dealt \\'ith, and the book is beautifulh' illustrated with unique photographs of various grasses 

 and other interesting pictures. The work is an invaluable one for those practically engaged 

 in directing green-keeping operations, and should be in the possession of every green-keeper 

 and every green committee.' — GOLF ILLUSTRATED. 



Through all Booksellers, from 

 SiMPKiN, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Limited, London ; 

 or direct from 



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