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THE LA WN. 
A variety of opinions prevail concerning the best grasses for 
seeding. It will be safe to say that for lawns timothy and red 
clover are totally unsuited, and that the grasses which make the 
best pastures in the neighborhood, will make the best lawns. The 
following mixture for one bushel of seed is recommended in Hen- 
derson’s Manual of Floriculture, viz : 
12 quarts Rhode Island Bent Grass. 
4 quarts creeping Bent Grass, 
lo quarts Red-top. 
3 quarts Sweet Vernal Grass. 
2 quarts Kentucky Blue Grass. 
I quart White Clover. 
We have seen very successful lawns made with equal parts, by 
weighty of Kentucky blue grass, red-top, and white clover seed. 
The quantity required is about a half bushel to each one hundred 
feet square. 
When rains are frequent, 7 io lawn can he brought to perfection 
if cut less often than once a week, and two weeks is the longest time 
a lawn should remain uncut, except in periods of total suspension 
of growth by severe drouth. Where shrubs and flowers are placed 
properly, there will always be clear space enough to swing a lawn 
scythe or roll a lawn machine. Only in the most contracted yards 
should there be nooks and corners, or strips of grass, that an or- 
dinary mower cannot get at easily, and without endangering either 
the plants or his temper. Places that are so cluttered with 
flowers, trees, and shrubs that it becomes a vexatious labor for 
a good mower to get in among them, are certainly not well 
planted. Good taste, therefore, in arrangement, will have for its 
first and durable fruits, econo^ny, a product of excellent flavor 
for all who desire to create beauty around their homes, but who 
can illy afford to spend much money to effect it, or to waste any in 
failing to effect it. The advice to plant so as to leave sufficient 
breadth to swing a scythe wherever there is any lawn at all, is none 
the less useful, though the admirable little hand-mowing machines 
take the place of the scythe ; for a piece of lawn in a place where a 
scythe cannot be swung, is not worth maintaining. 
