CARE OE ESTABLISHED LAWNS. 
Nearly all lawns are expected to thrive during jnany 
years.with no attention except possibly watering and mowing, 
.^henit is remembered thpt few lawns were properly built 
rciginally, and that even the simple operations of watering 
and mowing are usually improperly done, it is little wonder 
that most lawns are about as unsatisfactory as they could be. 
No surface care that can be given a lawn will take 
the place of proper construction underneath, but carful surface 
attention is advisable in any case. 
Any established lawn that is worthy of care should 
have regular attention along the following lines — mowing, 
watering, mulching, fertilizing, weeding. If any one of these 
operations is neglected or improperly done your lawn will 
deteriorate and will probably need to be done over eventually 
in order to make it satisfactory. These are requisites which 
any lawn should have if it is to be presentable. To these 
should be.added special attention under certain conditions, 
such as liming a blue-grass lawn in case of extreme acidity, 
or acidifying a bent lawn if necessary, or treating a lawn 
for grubs, worms, ants, or other pests if it becomes infected. 
These latter operations should be resorted to only as emergencies 
not as regular practice. Liming a blue-grass lawn, for instance, 
should be resorted to only if an actual test shows a strongly 
acid condition — not otherwise. Don't get the liming habit, 
which leads some lawn keepers to lime their lawns each year. 
Lawns are subjected ordinarily to extremely trying 
conditions, yet undoubtedly no plants are given less sensible 
attention than lawn grass. It is -cut to an abnormal length, 
and tramped, and starved, and even mistreated under the guise 
of supposed care; and then when it does not thrive we are con¬ 
vinced that a beautiful lawn is beyond the reach of average 
ability. We tell you that no other line of off-time endeavour 
will pay such big dividends in satisfaction as a lawn if our 
efforts are sensibly employed. 
