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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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CHAMPION NEWTON ABBOTT SQUIRE 

 CHAMPION WILLOWMERE JUDGE 

 CHAMPION MAYOR OF WATFORD 

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FRITZ EMMETT II, BY CHAMPION ALTA BRUCE 









Country and Suburban Houses 



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19 4 Ed 1 1 i o n — Designs costing 

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19 6 Edition Designs costing 

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The most beautiful and useful book 

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 The designs are illustrated by fine half-tone 

 engrai in^'s made from watercolor drawings and 

 photographs, showing the buildings as they will 

 actually appear when completed. Each design 

 has also a first and second floor plan carefully 

 worked out and figured, and in a number of in- 

 stances the interiors are shown from photograph 

 plates; also accurate estimates of cost, general 

 specifications and useful information on plan- 

 ning and building. Colonial, Artistic, English 

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 Special designs and detailed plans prepared. 

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Sun-Dials with Pedestals, Complete 



By utilizing our Koll's Patent Lock J^int in the con- 

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From My "Bool of Bungalows'' 



grass is, therefore, a very important matter 

 in the establishment of lawns. 



Bluegrass, bent-grass, and the fescues, if 

 used in combination, should be sown at the 

 rate of two to three bushels of seed to the 

 acre. Bluegrass, if used alone, should not be 

 used at a less rate than two bushels to the 

 acre, while white clover, if added to the col- 

 lection of the above-named sorts, should be 

 used at the rate of a peck to the acre. Upon 

 sandy lands and in spring seeding white clover 

 is a very important factor, because is germin- 

 ates quickly and covers the ground, afford- 

 ing protection and presenting an attractive 

 appearance earlier than is possible by the use 

 of the other grasses. White clover, too, is 

 able to re-establish itself very quickly after 

 periods of severe drought, and until the blue- 

 grass, redtop, and bent-grass become thor- 

 oughly established the white clover will us- 

 ually be in the ascendant. As the turf-form- 

 ing habits of the other grasses become more 

 strongly marked, however, the white clover 

 will gradually disappear and give place to the 

 more permanent grasses. 



ESTABLISHING A LAWN. 



The successful establishment of a lawn de- 

 pends upon the careful preparation and the 

 proper fertilization of the land and the selec- 

 tion and planting of appropriate grasses. In 

 those localities where a lawn can be estab- 

 lished by the use of seeds the preparation of 

 the seed bed and the selection and sowing of 

 the seeds are exceedingly important questions. 

 General directions for the preparation of the 

 soil have already been suggested. In ordr that 

 seeds of suitable character may be secured, 

 it is desirable in the first place to determine 

 the varieties which succeed best in the locality. 

 In the northeastern part of the United States 

 bluegrass, redtop, Rhode Island bent-grass, 

 and white clover are the chief constituents of 

 lawn mixtures. In the latitude of Washing- 

 ton, D. C, bluegrass and white clover, Rhode 

 Island bent-grass, and Bermuda grass are all 

 more or less important lawn grasses. Ber- 

 muda grass seed is not commercially grown in 

 the United States, and because of the expense 

 of the Australian product the only economical 

 means of propapating this grass is by division 

 of the rootstocks. 



In order to secure a uniform distribution 

 of the seed, the seeding should be done in two 

 directions. The seed should be divided into 

 two lots, one of the lots being scattered in one 

 direction across the land and the other scat- 

 tered at right angles to the first. This is done 

 in order to obliterate as far as possible balks 

 and streaks in scattering the seed. 



Since grass seed is very small, every precau- 

 tion should be taken to bring the seen in close 

 contact with the soil. Nature does this in an 

 ideal way by gentle showers. It is therefore 

 desirable upon small areas to sow the seed 

 immediately before a shower. If the shower 

 is a gentle one of some duration, it is more 

 desirable than a violent rain. Torrential 

 rains, if the surface of the lawn is sloping, 

 usually cause damage, which must be repaired. 



In the case of establishing lawns, if the 

 grasses which grow from seed cannot be used, 

 it is necessary to resort to one or the other of 

 the following methods: (i) The establish- 

 ment of the lawn by the use of small tufts of 

 grass or pieces of turf planted at intervals, suf- 

 ficiently close to allow the natural spreading 

 of the plant to soon take possession of the en- 

 tire area, or (2) covering the entire area with 

 turf. In the Southern States, where the Ber- 

 muda and St. Augustine grasses are depended 

 upon for lawn purposes, the common practice 

 is to cut the turf into small fragments, about 

 two inches square, or to take small tufts of 

 roots and stalks of the grass, as much as can 

 be easily grasped in the hand, and insert them 



