THE LAWN 



It is a most excellent plan to scatter bonemeal 

 over the surface of the lawn in midsummer, and 

 again in fall. Use the fine meal, as the coarse 

 article is not readily assimilated by the soil. 

 There is little danger of using enough to injure 

 the sward. Injury generally results from not 

 using any. 



Many lawn-owners, with a mistaken idea of 

 neatness, rake up the leaves that scatter them- 

 selves over the sward in fall, thus removing the 

 protection that Nature has provided for the grass. 

 Do not do this. Allow them to remain all winter. 

 They will be entirely hidden by the snow, if any 

 falls, and if there is none they are not unsightly, 

 when you cease to think of them as litter. You 

 will appreciate the difference between a fall- 

 raked lawn and one on which leaves have been 

 allowed to remain over winter, when spring 

 comes. The lawn without protection will have a 

 brown, scorched look, while the other will begin 

 to show varying tints of green as soon as the snow 

 melts. Grass is hardy, and requires no protec- 

 tion to prevent winter-killing, but a covering, 

 though slight, saves enough of its vitality to make 

 it well worth while to provide it. 



The ideal lawn is one in which no weeds are 

 found. But I have never seen such a lawn, and 



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