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''C."/lVX';^Si^l;r* THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



December, 19 10 



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Renovating the Lawn 



THIS is rather a month for cleaning up and 

 for preparation than for much actual work 

 outdoors, though it is still quite possible to put in 

 the hardier annuals and vegetables in the coast 

 country and in the South. Montbretias, valuable 

 in the border alike for their clean, green, sword- 

 like foliage and their fine orange and scarlet 

 flowers, should be divided and replanted now to 

 get good results, such as are impossible with close 

 matted clumps. 



This also is an excellent time to dig up gladioli 

 and dahlias, cutting off their tops and storing them 

 in a cool shed or other place which is neither 

 so dry as to cause them to shrivel nor so damp 

 as to start weak premature shoots. It is very 

 common, in those parts of California where there 

 are never more than a few degrees of frost, to treat 

 both gladioli and dahlias as hardy perennials, 

 leaving them in the ground all the time. Where 

 drainage is good this results in a strong bushy 

 growth and many flowers in early summer; but 

 in the case of dahlias especially, for iine quahty 

 and flowers in September, when we want them so 

 much more, it is advisable to lift now and separate 

 into single tubers and replant next May. 



The late fall, too, is the best time to root roses 

 in the open ground from cuttings. From well 

 ripened shoots of this year's growth cut off pieces 

 about seven inches in length, the lower end being 

 cut just below a Joint from which the leaves spring. 

 Remove the leaves if any remain and plant, prefer- 

 ably in a sandy soil, with about five inches of the 

 cutting under ground, and the earth made very 

 firm around the base of the cutting. If put about 

 ten inches apart in an inconspicuous part of the 

 garden, they may be left, with no further care 

 than an occasional watering and weeding, until 

 the next autumn, when the majority will have 

 rooted and made sufficient growth to be moved 

 to their permanent places. It is worth while 

 adding that it is the more vigorous varieties which 

 do well on their own roots. 



As lawns are best made or renovated during 

 the cooler, cloudier months, a few suggestions may 

 now be useful, especially to newer arrivals in the 

 section. Emphasis has often been laid in The Gar- 

 den Magazine on the thorough preparation of the ' 

 ground by digging, manuring and rolling, so I will 

 only add that this applies particularly to California, 

 where the long dry summers are especially hard 

 on a lawn. Seeding can be done either in the 

 fall or in March, preferably the latter in the 

 northern part of the state, and it is well to allow 

 a few days to intervene between the preparation 

 of the soil and the seed sowing, in order that the 

 first crop of weeds may germinate and be hoed off. 

 Kentucky blue grass certainly makes the finest 

 lawn where care and attention can be given it, 

 and a combination of this with white clover is 

 also good. Around San Francisco Bay, where 

 summers are cool and water is always available, 

 small lawns are often wholly clover, the chief 

 disadvantage being that they require a lot of 

 cutting. In some of the almost frostless parts 

 of Southern California and particularly where 

 the soil is light, Bermuda grass is used for lawns 

 as it has the merits of withstanding drought and 

 affording no foothold for weeds; but as it spreads 

 rapidly and can hardly be eradicated, it is well 

 to make sure you like its duller green before sowing 

 seed or, as is sometimes done, planting pieces of 

 the root checker-board fashion over the area to 

 be covered. In any case it should never be 

 mixed with other grasses, nor can it be recom- 



