Excerpt from Lawns and Greens, Their Formation and Management: Garden, Tennis and Croquet Lawns, Bowling and Golf Greens, Cricket Grounds, Grass Paths, Etc One of the chief charms of a well-ordered garden is its beautiful velvety turf. As a famous garden artist has so aptly expressed: "The lawn is the heart of the true British garden." In no other country is this delightful feature of the garden seen in such perfection in normal times as in this sea-girt isle. Every owner of a garden prides himself upon the possession of a good lawn, and well he may do so, for there is nothing forms so exquisite a setting to a floral picture as an expanse of emerald-green grass, and no costly carpet can ever vie with the springiness or elasticity of well-kept turf. Granted that the lawn forms so essential a feature of the flower garden, it naturally follows that every owner of a garden wants to know the correct methods of forming a lawn, and also of its subsequent management. To meet these requirements the present Handbook was published some years ago, and it met with such appreciation from the public that two editions of it have been exhausted, and a third one is now presented to meet a further continued demand for copies. This work, by the way, is not solely confined to the theme of the lawn alone; it covers a much wider field than that, and caters for the requirements of lovers of such manly and healthy sports as bowls, golf, cricket, tennis, etc. It contains full details on the formation and management of bowling greens, golf links, cricket pitches, and tennis and croquet lawns, and, therefore, may be said to be a complete vade mecum on all that pertains to the subject of greensward for beauty, pleasure, or sport. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.