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MANAGEMENT OF [chap. ix. 
Bromus arvensis, and the cock’s-foot grass, 
Dactylus glomerata, should never be sown in 
lawns. 
Grass seeds should be sown either in spring 
or autumn; and May, and August or Sep¬ 
tember are considered the best months. In 
very old lawns, moss is apt to predominate, 
and when it is wished to destroy this, the 
surface of the lawn is dressed, as it is called, 
in May with lime. Dressing with lime will 
also destroy the worms which are often very 
troublesome in lawns (particularly where the 
ground has been manured with dung), in 
throwing up casts, which make the ground 
uneven, and very difficult to mow. 
The Walks in 'pleasure-grounds should be 
hard and dry; and they should also be suffi¬ 
ciently wide to admit of three persons to 
walk abreast occasionally; as nothing can be 
more disagreeable than the situation of the 
third person, whom the narrowness of the 
walk obliges to walk before or behind his 
companions; and who is obliged either to 
remain silent or to carry on a most uncom¬ 
fortable and disjointed kind of conversation. 
The minor evils of clothes being caught by 
