The Complete Garden

A landscape architect's working manual of 1921: not how to grow a plant but where to put it — the plant lists, the groupings, the seasons of bloom, and the reasons behind a designed garden.

Lawns for the North

4 pages in this part of The Complete Garden.

Lawns for the North

PREPARATION OF LAWN AREAS. The keynote of success in securing a good lawn is thorough preparation of the area before seeding. Failures are…

Lawns for the North: Kentucky

The most common and satisfactory lawn seed mixture for the northern states is sixteen parts by weight of Kentucky blue grass, four parts of…

Lawns for the North: Types

TYPES OF GRASSES FOR LAWNS. There are three groups of grasses which are used for the development of lawns in the far south (throughout…

Lawns for the North: Bermuda

The Italian rye lasts only during one season. The Bermuda grass and St. Augustine grass will make a lawn nearly as permanent as any…

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