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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.

MAKING A · LAWN ·

By LUKE J. DOOGUE

SUPERINTENDENT OF BOSTON PUBLIC GROUNDS DEPARTMENT

NEW YORK McBRIDE, NAST & COMPANY 1912

Copyright, 1912, by McBRIDE, NAST & CO.

Published March, 1912

CONTENTS

PAGE

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

FACING PAGE

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