Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932, Elgood, George Samuel, 1851- · London, New York and Bombay, Longmans, Green & Co. · leaf 286
nd whenwe consider all the digging and delving, raking and hoeing that mustbe done as ground preparation, constantly repeated ; and then when wethink again of an ancient lawn of turf, perhaps three hundred years old,that, except for moving and rolling, has, for all those long years, taken careof… … prevents their blooming, so that they form but few fresh plants fromseed. Imperceptibly the dying of the older plants is going on, and thehungry root-fibres of their younger neighbours are feeding on the decay-ing particles washed into the earth. But whether lawns could exist at all without the…
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