Identifier: n05ontariosession37ontauoft (find matches)
Title: Ontario Sessional Papers, 1905, No.15-19
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: ONTARIO. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
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Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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be levelled and smoothed so that the mower may be worked easily Wher-ever much grading or filling has to be done, due allowance must be madefor settling, and a few inches of good surface soil should always be left ontop. The character of the surface soil is a matter of great importance, be-cause on it depends the luxuriance or poverty of the grass and the treeegrowing over it. The Green Sward. There are two ways of clothing the ground withgrass, either by sodding or by sowing grass seed. On small ph)t8 or steepbanks and along borders, sodding is the quickest and most satisfactory me-thod, but on large areas seeding is not only the cheapest, but (lif best. Inpreparing the ground for seeding is should be plowed, hajrrowed, rolled andmade as fine as possible, and as a final preparation nothing is better thangoing over it carefully with a garden rake. The kind of seed to sow is a matter of importance. Coarse grasses,such as timothy, are not suitable for lawn making. Many of the finer and
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Fig. 2. A. stretch of lawn showing great variety in !treo formp.more delicate grasses may be obtained in lawn grass mixtures, but themost satisfactory mixture we have found is made up of equal parts byweight of blue grass, red top grass, and white Dutch clover. All of theseare hajdy and stand well the extremes of our climate. The seeding shouldbe done on a still day when there is no wind to carry the lighter seeds.Thick seeding should be the rule. Three or four bushels per acre is nonetoo much for seeding down a lawn. After the seed is sown it should helightly raked in, and if the weather is dry it is well to go over the groundwith a hand roller. The work of ma,king a lawn may be done at almost anytime of the yeaj, but where much levelling and filling is necessary it is wellto do the grading in the fall, so that the ground will have finished settlingby the spring, and then the surface may be rajied over as soon as it is dryenough to work, and the seeds sown as early a^ possible. A law

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