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ploughing — a good and cheap substitute for trenching — that is to say 
making the plough follow three times in the same furrow. This, with 
manure, if necessary, will secure a depth of soil sufficient to allow the 
roots of plants to strike below the effects of a surface drought. 
In sowing a lawn, the best mixture of grasses that we can recom 
mend for this climate, is a mixture of Red-top and white Clover — two 
natural grasses found by almost every roadside — in the proportion of 
three fourths of the former, to one of the latter. 
There is a common and very absurd notion current (which we have 
several times practically disproved), that, in order to lay down a lawn 
well, it is better to sow the seed along with that of some grain ; thus, 
starving the growth of a small plant by forcing it to grow with a 
larger and coarser one. A whole year is always lost by this process — 
indeed more frequently two. Many trials have convinced us that the 
proper mode is to sow a heavy crop of grass at once, and we advise 
him who desires to have speedily a handsome turf, to follow the 
English practice, and sow three to four bushels of seed to the acre. If 
this is done early in the spring, he will have a lawn-like surface by 
mid-summer, and a fine close turf the next season. 
After this, the whole beauty of a lawn depends on frequent mowing. 
Once a fortnight at the furthest, is the rule for all portions of the lawn 
in the neighborhood of the house, or near the principal walks. A 
longer growth than this will only leave yellow and coarser stubble 
after mowing, instead of a soft velvet surface. A broad-bladed English 
scythe (to be had at the shops of the seedsman), set nearly parallel to 
the surface, is the instrument for the purpose, and with it a clever 
mower will be able to shave within half an inch of the ground, with- 
out leaving any marks. To free the surface from worm casts, etc., it 
is a common practice to roll the previous evening as much as may be 
mown the next day. * 
* A very great improvement and economy in the keeping of lawns- now-a- 
days, is in the employment of the Lawn-cutter, by which one man, with a 
horse -machine, will accomplish, in two or three hours, more than a dozen men 
can in a whole day. The best English lawn-cutters will cut, roll, and gather 
the grass from one acre , in one hour , where it is good, close turf, and there are 
no trees to interfere with the action of the machine. 
