The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-14

'"'' '"' s'"nt ydrdS lawns. Mine is
sHapcd IKE II ii,''e trapezium. the
i'neth ol he longest side being about,
Twelve pcet. All the other houses in
the cirYle have either squares or rec
tans'es for lawns. Mine. besides no.
nv =" irregular in shape. faces the
horili and is shaded summer and win.
ter ny the ncighhoring houses. More.
over, IT has. as have all the others, "A
l."mbardy poplar IN It's centre whose
snadc is quite dense and whose leaves.
thick and heavy. begin to fan early
IN IN" summer aud continue falling
until the winter sets in.
Inc problem with me for fifteen
year" mas been To make my lawn as
neautiful and green as the others. The
fourteen others, IN spring and sum
Wtf. set forth d~clcctable spears OF
grass. forming good turf. green and
"prrtlniuc to the eye and spirit Mine.
except for II Few days in the spring
Was yellow and unattractiNe. and the
grass which appeared for a short time
was soon invisible
For Nitccn wears 7 struggled with II,
III the conventional ways, TRYING To
RAISE grass and rcaping only "A wh.rl-
wind Of dry and ugly Iomiardy leaves.
! wurht al sorts of fertilizers; |
suwcd all sorts Of grass seed. seed
Warranted to grow Under trees. seed
Warranted tn grow even in cellars. I
wi'crcd and | rcfrliucd from watering.
was Pau and Apollos. over and over:
l was instant in season and out OF
season, but the Lord would no, give
the increase.
Jhcn' two years ago. grew des-
pcrste. 81 viii have u green lawn" |
said. II, shall Ice the greenest and
most beautiful Of al"
So n spring morning ,t was the
wrong time Of the year. Of course It
ought to have been in the fail. but 4,
was IN the spring that the impulse
cainel | went To the flower stores near
the market armed with a huge basket.
] brought that basket home filed with
a half dozen English ivy shoots and
as many myrtle roots. FOR which I
ia.d about s.. Then | had two tiny
lux trees for uhich paid - cents
apiece u one larger II for which
] paid 80 cents. Dn another occasion
] had Fought an arbor vita. about a
foot high. for 80 cents.
proceeded to ian my avn.
In the front | placed the arhor vit..
In the longer cud | placed the larger
box, where an occasional ray Of sun
might touch 1t. On the shorter SIDE I
placed the tiny hoN trees. Around
the ~Iomhardy I set u wreath Of COM
mon violet plants which some one had
gwen me. Then. i%rrcGular'y here and
there, | placed my ivy and myrtle.
Between these | piled heaps of stones.
which the boys Of the ueiShuorhoud
brought to me IN Their toy wagons
from a iield ncar by.
We Mere fortunate IN having here
4 rare and exceedingly interesting geo.
logic formation. II l. marine. the
upper crust of the lower Silurian. This
is the period when the great CONT
n"nts NJ America emerged from the
sea. 1t * the lime when the first
thought of the vertebrate dawn'd on
the spirit Of lie aad our stones are 4
Congloincrate OF most Interesting fo.-
sis. the tr.lohitc- being the aristo.
Gratis with their threefoid coat u ar
NOR.
THIS particular formation exists Only
in aleS. I'm the salt beds -; New Work
and here in cincinnati.
- m lawn was arranged and |
Wat. for r,sult~. The N.o'g's wer.
deI-ltri and made fr ends At once
V I'll III" Ola Lumhaidl and tr" fossils
IA the stones. TUe ivy seemed, how
'vrr. tu thIrH il owned the spot and
Vigorous? domincered over the myrtle.
The myrtle indeed seemed dropping
and wsah. But | CAV. them all pi,aty
% water. many loads of sand and
ARGENT spiGing and let them hsnt the
hattie Of life in other WAYS as they
would.
TIL. first summer people looked and
many were silent and some admired
and said, "lou are goinc II have some
thing beautiful there" and some iccred
and said, What are YOU trying to do,
ra.e rocks" and some conventional
ones pursed UP their lips and said. You
are spelling the looks of the circle. I
don't like vines But went q" n
Nothing cOu.d make the place look
worse than It hid in the past and per-
haps if ! played the part of Apollos
well the Lord would do his part. He
did
The con summer my lawn was a
thing of beauty. one c~onnoisseur said
IL gave an air "f distinction to the
house and the circle and almost every
one stopped tn admire.
~ course there we're trCspdssers
Some morning Slorics thought tho
place inviting and came bloomingly 10
live with the ivy and myrtle. t.vn q
hollyhock seed found what it thought a
good lodging place " my two IT.
Il" box trees and last sunmc its
v~arieGated lca yes were SO beautiful in
contrast with the dark ivy that the
Lord Of the Manor would not let me
pull II up. So We live in hopes Of a
stalk Of blooms from it this year.
When the poplar leaves fell they
were easily spaded IN and their decay
helped the sandy soil. The latter part
OF the summer ! had no work viii the
he'd. II took care OF itself and the ivy
had started IN clothe the L.ombardy in
a cloak of green.
There was NJ necessity to play
Rctsy Trotwood. because the ring
leader Of the boys was my first lieG-
tenant. and when the impulse seized
The children to walk on the lawn
they delighted in jumping from one
heap Of ston~ to another. or il coca
slonally their little feet touched the
IVY leaves anu myrtle, no harm was
done.
In the spring the spot was n glory