Excerpt from The Lawn The ideal soil for a lawn is available in but few cases Where it is desirable to establish a greensward. Ordinarily the lawn in Which a man is most interested is that immediately surrounding his abiding place. The soil of this immediate locality is, in general, greatly modi fied because of building operations or necessary grading. The soil With Which one has to deal, therefore, is seldom a normal soil of the locality. In general, it is a portion of the surface soil mixed With more or less of the ...
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Excerpt from The Lawn The ideal soil for a lawn is available in but few cases Where it is desirable to establish a greensward. Ordinarily the lawn in Which a man is most interested is that immediately surrounding his abiding place. The soil of this immediate locality is, in general, greatly modi fied because of building operations or necessary grading. The soil With Which one has to deal, therefore, is seldom a normal soil of the locality. In general, it is a portion of the surface soil mixed With more or less of the subsoil Which has come from excavation in making the foundations of a house. Large lawns and parks are not, as a rule, so Subject to difficulties of this kind as are small private grounds. The problem before as, then, is that of converting not a normal but an abnormal soil into a suitable and congenial place for the growing of grasses, The ideal soil for grasses best suited for lawn making is one Which is moderately moist and contains a considerable percentage of clay a soil Which is somewhat retentive of moisture, but never becomes excessively wet, and is inclined to be heavy and compact rather than light, loose, and sandy. A strong clay loam or a sandy loam, underlaid by a clay subsoil; is undoubtedly the nearest approach to an ideal soil for a lawn; it, therefore, should be the aim in establishing a lawn to approach as near as is possible to one or the other of these types of soil. In many localities it Will, however, be very difficult to produce by any artificial means at one's command a soil Which Will approach in'texture either of the types. Recommended. Our efforts, nevertheless, should be directed to attaining as closely as possible these ideals. Where a pure sand or a light sandy soil is the only foundation for the lawn, a top-dressing of 2 or 3 inches of clay should be given and incorporated With the first 4 to 6 inches of the sand, and after this. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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