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ORNAMENTAL 



GARDENING. 



BOOK I. 



CHAPTER I. 

 OF THE MATERIALS OF ORNAMENTAL GARDENING. 



These are lawn, gravel, soil, water, stones, flowers, shrubs, and 

 trees. 



Lawn, or smooth turf, is a pleasing and extensively useful 

 material, and in many of the subjects of ornamental gardening 

 forms a conspicuous part. It is produced from grass seeds sown 

 on poor soil, or by turf brought from old pastures. It is pre- 

 served and much improved by rolling and mowing, and greatly 

 injured by worms, rich spots of soil, or manure. Walks are 

 frequently made of lawn, which have a good effect in some or- 

 namental scenes ; but there should generally be others of gra- 

 vel, to have recourse to when these are moist or unpleasant. 

 In almost every case, where lawn is not fed by sheep, it should 

 not be formed of mere grasses ; which require continual mow- 

 ing, and present one dull, vapid, surface of uniform green. 

 They should be composed of primroses, violets, common and 

 garden daisy, camomile, graphallium, doicum, hieracium pilo- 

 sella, and especially white clover. Any three of these species, 

 or the whole of them judiciously mixed, would form a varie- 



