Show Heres Here's Here s How to Have WI Beautiful Grounds Landscape Specialist at Logan College Urges Careful Designing in Order to Gain Best Effect at Least Cost This le Is I the third article from a circular on Arrangement Arran ement an and Planning of Homo home Grounds by Emil Hansen of tho Utah Agri Agri- Agricultural A Agricultural rl- rl I cultural college extension service a specialist In landscape garden garden- gardenIng gardening ing PLAN X or 01 TIn Tim LOT Continued onal Depending Areas Areas on the tho habits and customs of o the household recreational areas may Include a private shady lawn childs child's playground vegetable gar gar- garden gur den fruit garden poultry or rabbIt runs tennis court flower garden or flower walk Poultry and rah rah- rabbit rab rabbit bit runs should occupy the rear of the lot for obvious reasons an and l should be entered through th the service area Vegetable and fruit growing may be a part of the flover flower garden but If It grown for economical reasons will require larger areas In the latter case calO the land may be more moro economical economical- economically ly handled by Itself and should occupy the rear end enI of the lot Other things s being equal the tho vegetable and fruit garden should occupy the very ery best soil goll receive the most sun exposure be close a to the water supply and especial especial- especially especially ly Iy on the farm be located near the louse houS preferably adjacent to the service area arelL LAWN J 4 A- A shady shay private lawn for tor rest rut restful restful ful lounging or a childs child's play play- playground playground playground ground should l be bo adjacent to the living room of the house and cas easily easily ily seen wen from the windows It should Mould be entered through a door loor from the living rooms or serVIce never area never from the street and street should be screened b by hedS hedge plant plant- plantings plant plant-Ings ings from outside view Flowers have no place In fn these areas since they are likely to become trampled A tennis court requires a largo large area and should be bo far tar enough h from the house to avoid breaking Windows It should be well screened In from street and flower gardens garden to avoid the necessity for hunting lost tennis balls Flower gardens should be con con- considered considered con considered as outdoor living rooms They will 11 be fully discussed In the section on the Flower Garden Ono should never neler plant trees and shrubs that will hide good views of external objects such a asa a beautiful tree In a neighbors neighbor's yard yord a distant mountain peak or ora ora ora a sunset MAKING M NEW LAWN X It Jt has often orten been noticed that when excavating for tor a cellar or II a foundation for a new house that the subsoil which Is Is- Is dug out Is prea eprea dover dorer the natural contour of the plot covering the topsoil when nicking making the tho grade for tor the lawn Nothing can grow In the subsoil until It has haa been thoroughly weathered worked and I fertilized For this reason the topsoil ought to be pe e removed from the plot be be- be before fore foro the excavating le Is begun ln an amt replaced again as-aln on the surface after af- af after nt-ler nt ter the subsoil which has hag been dull from the he cellar has bas been spread and graded The soli should then be examined and it If there thero Is any deficiency In the requisites fora for tor a lawn lawn the lack should hould be bo supplied supplied If If the soil soli Is four an application of air lime will correct this acidity It will ba bra necessary to drain coho cold soggy wet Vet IAn land I NI NEED ED D RICA niCIl SOIL SOILA A rich soil soli Is 15 required for a lawn therefore If It the toll soil In the plot on Oil which the tho lawn fawn Is desired Is not rich enough h plenty of rotted stable manure should b be added and mixed with the soil soli to toa toa toa a depth of ot six to eight Inches There Inches There Is no better way of securing securing securing ing lasting results than by the use of of plenty ot or good stable manure free from wood shavings and anol wood chips As tho the wood decays In the ground round a fungus Is often olten pro pro- produced produced produced which may cause bare spots In the lawn Commercial fertilizer fertilizer fertilizer lizer may be used although th the stable manure furnishes humus to the soil and the power of feed feed- fe feeding feeding I ing the plants from this source Is Isor or of a more permanent nature rr PLANTING PL G J Liw The most moot favorable fa method metho of making a new lawn Is to prepare the soil soli in the plot during the fall months mal making It read ready for tor planting of the tho seed In the early spring pring as 50 sown soon n as as 53 the ground is dry enough to work Early planting planting has Its chief advantage p In that the seed get or of the early spring rains How However ever er if It the work cannot bo bl done at this time the lawn may be successfully planted any time thereafter until the middle of September If It tho the seed is planted plantel during the tho hot summer months It ft ItIs itIs Is necessary to cover the newlY seeded lawn with Ith a thin layer laer of clean straw until the grass Is out of tho the ground round It t Is la highly Important important Im- Im that this straw be re- re moved as soon as the grass Is up I evenly on the lawn In seeding the plot It has been found best to make two sowings The Tho second sowing BOwing should hould he made crosswise to the first DY BY doing this the seed d will be more evenly distributed an and l there thero will willbe willbe willbe be no bare spots After ACter the seed Is sown It should be bo raked down downor or If It the plot Is a large tone one It may maybe maybe maybe be harrowed lightly and then rolled Goo Good l results In all parts parti or of Utah have come from the use of tho following ing see seed l mixture Kentucky 5 5 poun pounds ls Whito Clover 1 pound The quantity of seed required for square feet Is approximately approximately approximately one pound of the tho mixture WN J MAINTENANCE CE It stands to to reason tha that t when a lawn has bas been mowed moved Week af- af after af nf after ter tet week during the summer some fertilizing Is required As the grass Is a permanent crop and the ground cannot be cultivated It therefore needs richer feeding than vegetable crops where soil soli can he e cultivated and the crop rotated I During During the late lale fall months It t is well to spread II a a thin coating ot of rotted owell-rotted well rotted manure over oer the lawn lawnIn In th the early spring when the grass begins to grow all remaining man man- manure manure man ure should be ba removed remo with a lawn rake Various artificial fer- fer fertilizers may be used to good nd- nd advantage advantage vantage flaw Itaw can be beuse use used l at the rate of ten pounds to t three hundred square feet To He lie 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