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RURALISMS 
Improving  a  Lawn 
I  have  ground  my  house  at  Manomet, 
Plymouth  Co..  Mass.,  about  one-third  of 
an  acre  of  grass  in  which  there  is  con¬ 
siderable  “fog,”  so-called,  or  grass  which 
lias  grown  up  short  after  cutting  and  has 
died.  The  new  grass  comes  up  through 
it  each  year,  but  the  old  dead  grass  forms 
a  kind  of  mat.  making  it  hard  to  cut  well 
with  the  machine.  I  am  not  trying  for 
a  lawn  around  the  house,  but.  just  to 
keep  things  green.  How  can  I  improve 
these  conditions?  Would  you  advise 
burning  it  over  this  Spring  and  at  what 
Stage,  i.c.,  any  time  now  when  it  is  dry 
enough  or  shall  I  wait  until  just  before 
growth  starts?  Cl.  A.  B. 
Boston.  Mass. 
This  fog  grass,  as  it  is  commonly 
called,  seems  to  be  indigenous  to  the 
sandy  soils  along  the  Northern  Atlantic 
coast,  as  I  have  never  noticed  it  growing 
elsewhere.  Here  in  New  Jersey,  many 
lawns  are  quite  thickly  spotted  with 
patches  of  it,  in  size  from  a  few  inches 
up  to  several  feet  in  diameter.  The  only 
way  the  writer  could  effectually  rid  the 
lawn  of  it  was  to  cut  out  these  patches 
with  a  spade,  going  wide  enough  and 
deep  enough  to  get  every  portion,  then 
fill  in  with  new  soil  and  seed  the  spots 
down  with  good  lawn  grass  mixture. 
This  should  be  done  in  early  Spring,  be¬ 
fore  the  grass  grows  up.  The  burning 
over  of  grass  land  may  be  done  any  time 
now,  that  it  is  dry  enough.  K. 
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Read  what  W.  A.  Clones;  Worcester 
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necessary,  but  start  in  as  soon  as  the 
vines  are  six  inches  tail,  then  every  week 
or  ten  days,  depending  somewhat  oil  the 
weather.  This  year  I  sprayed  live  times 
with  Pyrox,  and  was  not  bothered  with 
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Will  you  advise  me  as  to  the  proper 
care  of  a  greenhouse,  the  amount  of  heat, 
moisture,  ventilation  and  so  forth?  We 
built  one  last  Fall  and  sowed  radishes 
and  lettuce  in  it,  but  they  have  not  been 
a  success:  in  fact,  the  radishes  did  not 
even  bottom.  Can  you  tell  me  where  I 
can  get  a  book,  one  that  is  reliable,  on 
the  care  « »f  greenhouses?  c.  t.  r. 
Cumillus,  N.  Y. 
It  would  have  been  much  easier  to 
make  suggestions  in  this  case  if  C.  T.  R. 
had  been  more  definite  in  stating  the 
trouble.  Radishes  are  possibly  the 
easiest  crop  to  handle  we  can  grow  in 
a  greenhouse.  They  should  be  sown 
thinly  in  rows  about  four  inches  apart, 
and  when  up  an  inch  or  more  thin  to 
a  single  plant  every  inch  and  a  half  to 
two  inches  apart  in  the  row.  Cardinal 
Globe  Forcing  is  best  red.  and  Icicle 
best  white  variety.  Temperature  50  de¬ 
grees  at  night,  G5  degrees  during  the 
day,  will  give  good  results.  Soil  should 
be  rich  and  water  should  be  applied 
heavily  and  often.  Two  or  three  heavy 
soakingS  each  week  will  mature  Car¬ 
dinal  Globe  in  four  weeks  and  Icicle  iu 
five  weeks,  or  even  less  time. 
If  C.  L.  R.  observed  the^e  rules  hi 
sowing  and  caring  for  his  crop,  and 
then  had  a  failure,  it  must  have  been 
caused  by  planting  some  variety  that 
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