Petunias 
Diener, Richard, 
Kentfield, Maria Co., Cal, 
Rock Gardens 3oForbus'st.,Poughkeepsie, n y. 
Logan Nurseries, Wolcott Nurseries, 
Logan P. O., Pa. Jackson, Michigan. 
Roses 
Howard & Smith, 
Los Angeles, Cal. 
Bobbink & Atkins, Peterson, George A., 
Rutherford, N. J. Cromwell, Conn. 
Conard & Jones, Peterson, Geoge A., 
West Grove, Pa. Fairlawn, New Jersey. 
Dreer, Henry, Pierson, A. N., 
Philadelphia, Pa. Cromwell, Conn. 
Farquhar, R. & J., Storrs & Harrison, 
Boston, Mass. Painesville Ohio. 
Howard Rose Company, Totty Charles H. 
Hermit, Cal., Madison, New Jersey. 
Walsh, M. H., 
Wood's Hole Mass. 
Verbenas 
Dillon, J. L., 
Bloomsburgh, Pa. 
Wild Flowers "^""fefena. Sof^^^^^^^^ 
Botanical Nursery Co. Gillette, Edward, 
Lapeer, Michigan. Southwick Mass 
F. K . Horsford, 
Charlotte, Vt. 
Grass, like all other plants, breathes through its leaves, and can Plant 
only maintain such a root system as is supported by the amount of Material 
leaf surface it has. If you cut your grass too short, there is not enough 
leaf or blade surface to maintain a healthy root system, less new blades 
grow from the weakened roots, the roots cease to occupy every avail- 
able particle of soil, and weeds can easily find a foothold. The weeds 
make it increasingly difficult for the weakened grass roots to grow, 
and you soon find that you have a weed patch, where you had hoped 
to have a lawn. 
Cut your lawn as late as possible in the Spring. If you can persuade Making and 
yourself and your gardener to do so, wait until some patches of the Maintaining 
lawn must be cut with a sickle before being cut with the mower, a Lawn 
There are always rich spots where the grass grows fastest, and the 
whole lawn should not be cut because those spots need it. That extra 
week or two gives your grass a fighting chance against the weeds, 
because it has had so much more leaf surface through which to strength- 
en its roots. There are two reasons why the grass is cut too early 
in the Spring: first, the inborn feeling in all of us that the Spring is 
not really here until we have mowed the lawn and made the place 
look neat, and, second, it is really very hard work to mow an over-long 
lawn with a hand mower, and with a power mower it must be gone 
over at least twice, as some grass will be so long it will lie down 
of its own weight at the approach of the mower; and thus escape 
cutting. 
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