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قراءة كتاب Making a Lawn
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MAKING
A LAWN
THE HOUSE & GARDEN
MAKING
BOOKS
It is the intention of the publishers to make this series of little volumes, of which Making a Lawn is one, a complete library of authoritative and well illustrated handbooks dealing with the activities of the home-maker and amateur gardener. Text, pictures and diagrams will, in each respective book, aim to make perfectly clear the possibility of having, and the means of having, some of the more important features of a modern country or suburban home. Among the titles already issued or planned for early publication are the following: Making a Rose Garden; Making a Tennis Court; Making a Garden Bloom This Year; Making a Fireplace; Making Roads and Paths; Making a Poultry House; Making a Hotbed and Coldframe; Making Built-in Bookcases, Shelves and Seats; Making a Rock Garden; Making a Water Garden; Making a Perennial Border; Making a Shrubbery Group; Making a Naturalized Bulb Garden; with others to be announced later.
Lawn is probably the most important element in the setting for most country houses, yet all too frequently it is expected to make and take care of itself
MAKING
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| By LUKE J. DOOGUE SUPERINTENDENT OF BOSTON PUBLIC GROUNDS DEPARTMENT |
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| NEW YORK McBRIDE, NAST & COMPANY 1912 |
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Copyright, 1912, by
McBRIDE, NAST & CO.
Published March, 1912
CONTENTS
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| The Small Lawn, Old and New | 1 |
| The Treatment of Large Areas | 8 |
| Grass Seed | 13 |
| Sowing the Seed | 24 |
| Sodding | 28 |
| Good Loam and Fertilizers | 31 |
| Lawn-mower, Roller, and Hose | 37 |
| Weeds and Other Pests | 46 |
THE ILLUSTRATIONS
| The Lawn is an Important Element in the Setting for a Country Place | Frontispiece |
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| A Path of Stepping-stones To Save Labor in Mowing | 4 |
| A Successful Covering of a Steeply Sloping Bank | 14 |
| Golf Course and Putting-green | 20 |
| The Result of a Cheap, Ready-made Mixture of Grass Seed | 28 |
| One of the Most Difficult Places To Make a Lawn—Under Large Shade Trees | 34 |
| The Necessity for an Occasional Cleaning of the Lawn-mower | 40 |
| The Only Sure Way To Eradicate Weeds | 48 |
Making a Lawn
THE SMALL LAWN, OLD AND NEW
TO the thousands of anxious inquirers, seeking solution of lawn difficulties, it would be more than delightful to say that a fine lawn could be had by very hard wishing, but honesty compels one to change the words "hard wishing" to "hard work," in order to keep strictly within the truth. A well-made lawn is a testimonial to a hustler, whether the area is small or large.
The majority of inquiries about lawn needs come from people having small places, from a few hundred to a few thousand feet, and the symptoms described
can be divided into two classes: one where they want to make grass grow where it has