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remembering that it cannot be pounded too hard. After being laid,sod must be cared for carefully throughout the summer. LAWNS FOR THE SOUTH Soil and Climatic Conditions. The extreme heat and the longdry spells during the summer months throughout the southern statesmake it inadvisable to try to establish a turf similar to the turf of thenorthern lawns, composed mostly of Kentucky blue grass, redtop,clovers, and bents. These grasses, when used in the south for a lawnturf, will completely burn out during the summer months unless anabnormal amount of labour is employed to protect them by excessivewaterings. While in the northern section of the country lawns ingeneral are developed on good loam or topsoil, the soil conditions of thesouth are somewhat different. The soil throughout the south, es-pecially in Florida, is generally known as yellow or clay sand on whichlawns can be developed with the least difficulty, and the white sandwhich contains little or no plant food and on which no satisfactorylawn can be developed without the addition of a considerable quantityof muck. The "topsoil" sand, so-called, often possesses a considerablequantity of food matter; but the ease with which water drains from itcombined with the heat of summer will cause the northern types ofgrasses to burn out and also will kill many of the southern types ofgrasses. |
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