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MANAGEMENT OF [chap. ix. 
The plants will, however, probably be too 
thick; and as, when this is the case many of 
them die, the ground may require a partial 
re-sowing the following spring. It is there¬ 
fore safer under ordinary circumstances not 
to sow more than four bushels and a half an 
acre, as if that quantity be equally distributed, 
the plants will not be too thick. 
When the ground which is to form the 
lawn has been marked out, the soil, if it 
wants amelioration, should be spread over 
with the earth required to make it approach 
as near as possible to the great desideratum, 
a sandy loam, and it should be then dug 
about a foot deep. Care should be taken to 
do this in dry weather; as the two soils to be 
mixed, should be both in a state of dryness. 
No manure should be dug in unless the soil 
happen to be very poor indeed; as manure will 
tend to produce a larger and taller growing 
crop of grass, which, of course, will increase 
the trouble and expence of mowing, without 
being of any use. The ground being dug, 
and raked to remove all the large stones, the 
surface should be rolled, and then the seeds 
sown ; after which it should be rolled again 
