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Show VERDUROUS LAWNS AND FOLIAGE. An Englishman Tells About the Careful Gardening In Ills Native Land. Lewis Rose, a practical gardener, came to this country 10 years ago from England, where he was a farmer, and he trims and cute according to English rules. Speaking of this country, he said: You Americans do not know what good lawns are. In England the houses of the gentry are surrounded by acres of green sward that looks just like velvet. vel-vet. They mow the grass with a machine ma-chine every week, and after the mower comes a heavy stone roller that rolls it down as fiat as a piece of paper. It is just as smooth as that table cover there 6tretched over the table. The roller is to press down'and heal any little break or tear in the turf made by the machine. If you break the turf anywhere, it is just like breaking your skin. You must fix it directly, or there will be a sore place on the lawn. Even if it gets well there will always be a scar there unless you mend it carefully. You should see the English lawns after a showerl The green is beautiful, and every blade of grass stands up straight, but all the little blades are of exactly the same length, and they look soft and level. The perfume of the new grass is delightful. They have windows generally gen-erally that come down to the floor, and on the walls outside the house are climbing rosebushes all in bloom. The combined odor of roses and new mown grass is very pleasant. You have to go at a lawn as if it were a piece of em broidery you were at work on. First you must have a good rich, decaying mold for the grass to live on. You cannot make grass grow in sand. Then as the grass comes np you must go over it step by step and dig out 8ll the coarse grass and weeds and be sure to mend each place after digging up the roots. Then you will begin be-gin to find patches where no grass appears. ap-pears. You want to have grass seed handy and sow these places with it. 1 watertaiy lawns twice a day in the morning before the sun gets fairly up and at night after it goes down. I mow the grass every week. After you have a good lawn you must watch every j inch of it. -You have no idea how easy i it is to let a patch here and there get poisoned to death. When vou find anv I foreign substance on a lawn that is likely like-ly to poison the grass, you want to dig it up, put fresh soil and fertilizer under un-der it and fit a new and healthy bit of turf in the hole you have made. Then keep an eye on it afterward and water it well. The rich, decomposed sweepings sweep-ings from the stable make the best fertilizer. fer-tilizer. In pruning trees you want to cut off every long shoot and make your trees compact and bushy like a full blown rose. Even wealthy Americana let their trees get scrawny, and they don't always al-ways cut them enough to prevent decay in some of the branches. It is easy to trim trees if yon understand this principle. prin-ciple. And the only reason I have been successful with my lawns is that I have been willing to take pains with them and do a lot of hard work. New York Sun. |