Lawns--their Grades And Grasses

Mr. F. E. Elliott, in a letter to the Oardeners' Monthly on the subject at tha head of this article, says : There is a truth in the faot that only in the suburbs and surronndings of cities, where intelligent landaoape gardeners reside, do we find true and appropriate arrangements of ground, tree and plant. - But thanks to the growing intelligence of our people, and the grand desire of each one to make his home-grounds features of beauty as well as comfort and profit with economy, we are yearly adding to the nuinbers in which true taste is at least attempted to be developed in the grade, line of path, and planting of trees, shrubs and flowers, surrounding the home family house. Money and wealth, and expense of after care, are not etrictly a part and parcel of the tasteful make-up of a hornestead'a household surroundings. It is inoro in the careful study before doing the work ; first of where the house should stand in order, according to its plan, to givo the rooms most to be used, the best light, and best and pleasantest view ; second, how the paths leading to and froin the docrs can be made graceful and easy, (for no person will ever walk naturally a straightlineof a hundred feet,) and at the time just where the main items of daily necessary travel havo to be followed. I ackncwledge this is a thought deïnanding no little study, but it is a feature of everyday-life, that in the first fitting of one's home-grounds should be considered. The next point is the establishment of the grade, which should always be, upon what we torm level ground on the average frontage of suburban country home-grounds, so toned that while it rises from the street line, it does so, hiding mainly the portion of the pathways from those however useful and necessary to the grounds, and no more a feature of beauty thereto than is the chimney to the houso. They are not the items in the architecture of the work that belongs to the study and application of a fine taste in the formation, saving and excepting that they are necessities which, when bhown, exhibit the daily walks and wants of grounds, as do the chimneys the positions and uses of the rooms in the house, Mr. Elliott very properly recommends heavy seeding of lawns. In reiation to this he says : - " The mixture 1 would make should be tweuty-ejght poundS of clean Kentucky Blue grass - the same of Eed Top - twelve pounds of white clover and ten pounds of Creeping Bent grass to tüe acre. in sowing mis seeu qo ït throe several times, i. e., divide it into three pareéis. Sow first east and west, then rake the ground lightly ; then bow north and south, rake again lightiy, not over half an inch deep, with a light steel rake, then sow again the last third of the seed east and west, and roll it - rake no more, but roll it, first east and west, then north and south, and then again east and west. " I have made a good many lawng from this System or course of practice, and in sixty days from the seeding in Spring, have had the lawn-mower put on, and th'irty days thereafter croquet playing has been a feature upon the law." illidiijinii jltpg.