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Show LAWN GRASS. The very best grass I have made use of for a lawn is no questionably orchard grass. But then to make it effectual for this purpose, no half way ?? should be practice in preparing the ground, sowing the seed and cutting the grass. The sod should be rich, is ?? ??, and free from weeds. The best preparation of it is to cultivate it in potatoes or some other load? road? Crop the preceding year. If this can be taken off in August early or late, according to climate, the seed may be safely sown in that month, if not, leave it till the following spring, and then put it in as early as possible. Plough, barrow very fine, and level the ground. Then sow at least at the rate of four bushels per acre, so that the ground can be thickly slooked?. If this is not done the grass forms tussocks, and these sport the beauty of the lawn. Never sow clover or any other seed with this for a lawn, but one may do so with clover only for a field crop if desired, as both are rendy? at the same time to ont? for hay, which, to have it tender and s??, should be in the earliest of blossoming. After sowing brush the surface nicely and then roll. Cut the grass as often as it gets about four inches high. This keeps it from growing c?? and making a closer, tirmer? Sod. This grass is the best to shoot up in the spring and the last to turn brown in late ?? or during the winter. Ray? Hay? grass, if treated in the shore manner, ?? next to orchard g??? in making a superior lawn.-C?? Country Gentleman. |