400 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
If you can’t keep a secret, apply 
for LIPPINCOTT’S at any news¬ 
stand, 25c a copy. 
McBride, Nast & Company, Publishers 
31 Union Square, North, New York 
I promise not to tell if you reduce the 
price and send me a 6 months’ trial sub¬ 
scription to Lippincott’s Magazine for 
$1.00. I have been told that under the 
new Editorial direction Lippincott’s has 
become the most brilliant, the most optim • 
istic and altogether the most delightful 
magazine published. I particularly want 
to read Ralph Henry Barbour’s complete 
novel, “The Happy Man,” in the June 
number. 
i= Name. 
=1 Address. 
For the Beginning Housekeeper and the Bachelor Girl 
McBRIDE, NAST & CO., Publishers, 31 Union Square, North, New York 
The Small Family Cook Book 
By MARY D. PRETLOW 
A new cookery book for the beginning housekeeper and for 
everyone who has to cater to two or three persons. It solves 
the difficulties imposed by the.average cook book of reducing 
the quantities prescribed, to the limits required and at the 
same time retaining the essential piquancy of the recipe. 
This bock is fascinating in its suggestions and menus for 
afternoon teas, informal breakfasts, luncheons and congenial 
foregatherings of bachelor girls. 
With decorations by Rhoda Chase and Charles Guischard. 12mo. 75c. net. Postage 8c. 
June, 1915 
smooth and clean as is possible, and over 
it a seeding of winter grasses be made. 
The Italian Rye, Lolium Italicum, and 
the White Clover, Trifolium repens, used 
in the proportions of three to two, make a 
delightful winter combination. The rye 
is an annual and must be sown again each 
fall, but there is not a grass known to us 
that makes so fresh and green a lawn. 
Closely cut and regularly rolled, it is im¬ 
possible to describe its beauty. Clover is 
always lovely and does not have to he 
sown again each season. 
Pacey’s or English Rye, Lolium perenne , 
7 tar. tenue, is not quite so desirable as the 
Italian Rye for fresh beauty in the winter 
months, but it is a perennial and will last 
about four or five years. This is also 
about the length of time allowed by many 
good gardeners for the making over of the 
Bermuda lawns, so that if the Bermuda is 
used in the spring, the clover and ryes in 
the fall, the lawns should last for several 
years, with just enough reseeding of the 
bare spots to keep it even and neat. 
Cottonseed meal and bone meal used in 
the spring are also most valuable aids to- 
strong and even sods. They should be 
used in preference to the stable manure, 
unless the latter can be ploughed in deeplv, 
and, even then, this must always be fol¬ 
lowed by a warfare against weeds that 
must be waged even more vigorously than 
is usual, and all of us who make lawns 
know that this is an endless battle. 
Where it is not possible to secure the 
Bermuda roots for summer growth, plant 
the seed. Many use the Bermuda roots 
in spring and disc harrow in the fall and 
plant the Georgia Burr Clover, Medicago 
arobic, and declare that one planting of 
this makes either pasture or lawn for a 
lifetime. For large areas, for parks and 
much-used lawns, these two grasses are 
unequaled. For the smaller places the 
ryes and clover for winter and the Ber¬ 
muda for the summer will give best results. 
Farther South, in Charleston and Sa¬ 
vannah, and on the warm, sandy, coast 
lands, St. Augustine grass, Stenotaphrum 
Dimitiatum, is much used. This is grown 
from cuttings set in summer, one foot 
apart, and every joint takes root and be¬ 
comes a new center. It makes a dense, 
carpet-like growth and is almost an ever¬ 
green. It is often planted inland but 
seems to need the tang of the salt air for 
best results. 
An attested mixture of evergreen lawn 
grass, recleaned seed, that has been used 
this winter with excellent results and is- 
now making a strong spring growth that 
bids fair to hold out through the summer, 
is composed of the following six grasses: 
Kentucky blue, Poa pratensis, good for 
the higher sections of the South ; Red Top, 
Agrostis vulgaris, good for filling in with 
rhe Blue grass; English Rye, Lolium 
perenne, var. tenue; Italian Rye, Lolium 
Italicum; Bermuda, Capriola Dactylon; 
and White Clover, Trifolium repens. 
In writing to advertisers, please mention House & Garden. 
