THE GARDEN PRIMER 



smooths its surface, and helps maintain even 

 grades. 



The use of even well rotted manure on lawns is 

 attended by such a pestilential outbreak of weeds in 

 the spring that it is not advised. One application 

 will ruin an estabhshed lawn. Bone meal is better, 

 or some one of the special lawn fertilizers. These are 

 scattered in the same way as seed; from 300 to 500 

 pounds of the former should be used for 100 x 100 

 feet. Shaded areas under trees will require more 

 fertilizing than exposed and open places. 



Neglected lawns may be renovated by raking over 

 with a steel rake until the soil is loosened, then seeding 

 with about one- half the amount of seed used when sow- 

 ing new. But where weeds have really gained the 

 upper hand it is better to plow the entire surface up and 

 start new. Many old dooryards can be brought out of 

 their unkempt and hopeless condition, however, with- 

 out a resort to any such heroic measure, by going at 

 them early in the spring, reseeding, mowing whenever 

 needed, and giving them general careful attention. 



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