ners, are principally used in the method. A quantity of healthy 
soil is stripped at a depth of about one and one-half inches, which 
gathers in most of the grass roots with as little dirt as possible. 
The sods are run through a feed cutter which is so arranged as 
to slit them into ribbons about two inches wide, and the ribbons 
are shredded by hand, leaving a mass of grass roots. These roots 
are sowed broadcast on the ground, which has been carefully 
prepared by plowing and harrowing ; if a golf green is desired it 
is usually covered with about an inch of soil and rolled. For 
ordinary la\\Tis it has been found sufficient to broadcast the sod 
shreds and harrow or disk them in. By this method a good stand 
of sod has been obtained in as short a time as three weeks. 
Flowers Has any one the courage to arrange flowers on the supper 
For Table table in the following unusual way ? A handsome round mahog- 
Arrange- any table is necessary in the first place. No cloth or doilies of 
MENT any description in the center. A full light overhead. Lay a 
large wreath of parrot tulips with their leaves flat upon the 
mahogany, the rich fringed yellow, green and crimson heads 
closely together, the stems twined beneath. The reflections upon 
the wood are rarely beautiful. The white Florentine iris is also 
very beautiful arranged in this way. The color of the curved and 
fluted petals, the yellow of the beard and the blue green of the 
sword-like leaves reappear in the mahogany in entrancing beauty. 
Iris President John "Wister, of the Iris Society, showed his 
Slides beautiful slides of new Iris before the Southampton Club in July. 
These slides are mostly colored for him by Miss Grace Sturtevant, 
the Iris Specialist. Although he showed some marvelous slides 
of the Quarantined English beauties, we were comforted when we 
saw the new American seedlings that we may own. The lecture 
was called "The Development and Culture of the Iris." 
Garden Miss Helen Carlisle, the English garden painter, has been 
Pastels paintings in a number of members gardens this season. She has 
lately had an exhibition of her work at Southampton. Among 
the pictures most admired was one of Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James ' 
"Blue Garden;" and of Mrs. Auchincloss' "Border." Miss 
Carlisle works in pastel, which reproduces the true brilliance of 
the flowers as no other medium can. She makes one or two in 
pastel in the garden and takes them back to her studio at 24 East 
40th Street to finish, either in pastel or in oils as the customer 
prefers. Thus by sketching so quickly and surely she could come 
to one of our Clubs, make sketches of five different gardens and 
take them away, to be seen later at her studio. 
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