Eureka Reporter | 1903-04-03 | Page 5 | Making a Lawn

making a lawn the lawn should hould be the first cire c ire in ary home ground says country life in america all effective planting of shrubs and plants has relation to this foundation depends also upon it grass will grow any where to be sure but mere grass does not mal e a lawn you must have a sod and this sod must grow better every year this means good and deep preparation of the land in the begin ning rich so I 1 fertilizing each year re sowing and mending where the sod becomes thin usually we water our lawns too much making the grass shallow rooted and causing it to fail early every inducement should be made for the grass roots to go down