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By MARGARET SMITH

Times Garden Editor

80 YOU'RE going to build that new louse? Or oo i

just worry along with the old model a year or two longer! In either case you're concerned not only with an indoor

July. And before you build is the best time to plan for it. The basis of most of your gardening enjoyment (and

problems, too) is soil. Trees, shrubs, flowers and lawn, all

| are dependent for their best

development on good soil. If your builder is garden-minded, he won't bury your top soil fathoms deep under gravel and stiff clay

| from your basement excavation.

If he isn’ garden minded, you'd better convert him. For the time to get top soil on top, is when the grading is done. H ¥ » WITH A co-operative builder you can do something about soll right now, even though you're facing a year’s delay in getting necessary materials for your house. If you have a wooded lot you can begin your gardening adventures at once by clearing ft, leaving such native growth of shrubs and trees as you may want later for your landscaping plan. Then you'll have woods dirt left for your top soil But if your future estate is now a barren patch of clay, start getting it in shape right away by planting a cover crop. May is a good time to sow soy beans. They'll enrich the ground

‘with nitrogen while they grow.

In the fall you can have them plowed under and sow a winter cover crop of rye. Turn the rye under in the spring. Then if your builder is co-opera-tive about piling your top soil where it can be brought back to grade the lawn, you've made a “good begipajng.

MAYBE YOU'VE already moved |

into that Dream House, the grading is done, and it is, alas, clay. be discouraged. 'Every problem has its solution. This isn't a good time to sow grass seed in our climate anyway. 80 close your eyes to appearances, and sow your cover crop of soy beans to enrich that future turf. Plow them under in early fall and by late September you can sow your blue grass. Grass seed needs cool weather for germination, and the young grass gets a better start under cool fall rains than when it has to face hot summer sun, A fine lawn is most important to the appearance of your home. You can have expensive lilies and delphinium in your borders, the grandest planting of rhododendron at your foundation, but if your grass looks moth eaten and bare in spots it spoils the entire picture. »

on lawn care at regular intervals. From our own experience I know

their turf builder works almost too |property.

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of the family’s chief lawn mower. | problems. But weeds don't have much chance | your ability to work out an enjoy-

when grass flourishes so well.

With new chemicals now mar- good landscape architect. keted under various trade names, | work on your own ideas first so he'll { know what you want.

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weeds from dandelions to crabgrass are not too difficult to control. So it's not too hard to keep up a nice lawn if you can start with good soil. » » » WHETHER YOU'RE starting out with a new lot or making over an old one, a plan {is essential, For maximum effect from the work you do and the money you spend you want the planting to combine in a unity that harmonizes with the kind of house you have, sets off its best features, minimizes those you're just “putting up with.”

~ WHETHER YOU'RE concerned | family you need a play spot where with keeping up newly planted turf | the children can tramp the grass or rejuvenating an old lawn there's | bare without spoiling the lawn's no better system than to follow the appearance. advice of the much advertised lawn | specialists who offer free bulletins necessary a plan is if you're going

In many cases you need to screen off objectionable views nearby. For most of us a certain amount of privacy makes the yard more, enjoyable. If ‘you have a growing

The smaller your lot the more

to get the most out of your home land add to the value of your Every lot has its own spécial If you're in doubt about

able, attractive planting, consult a Even so,

It's your home, not his. ® - » 2 MOST HOME OWNERS prefer to keep their clotheslines and the play areas at the back where Mon- | day's white sheets and Junior's! sandpile won't distract the side-| walk stroller's eye from a special

with the finest part of the yard in the rear for the family’s private njoyment. Whichever you prefer, avoid the ommon mistake of cluttering up he lawn with scattered planting. A bed of zinnias over here, a few peonies there, with a lilac bush iomewhere between—that just gives he yard a measly, restless affect. But mix those same zinnias with the peonies in a long bed at one side of your yard, put the lilac at the other edge, and you've increased “your lawn's spaciousness by that one transplanting, Let the public parks have their {round flower beds. Your home ist la public domain, nor does the ave erage sized yard have the space that allows it to be broken, up by scattered Planing, » . . TREES ARE of prime importance in planting your new lot. They involve a major expenditure, too. You probably want quick shade. But consider that you may

be sacrificing strength of wood and long life to get it. If you put in quick growing trees, keep in mind their replacement later,

Plant your trees for a purpose— to have shade exactly where you want it, for tall lines in the total qnass of your planting. Don't just “set out a tree.” Consider whether they will later interfere with utility wires. Consider, too, what their eventual size will be. A giant oak or elm on a tiny lot with a small house can dwarf that house to ridiculous proportions, Maples are favorites for good autumn foliage. ed Norway maple makes such thick shade and is such a gross feeder with its close-to-the-surface roots you'll probably have trouble growing grass under it. (Of course, you can resort to ground covers—myrtle and English ivy are local favorites.)

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I'M PARTIAL to sycpmores for winter beauty, . Their siiedding outer bark and their rative seed balls more than make up for it. The tulip tree, too, seems to me more appreciated out of, rather than in, its “Indiana home." I think fryit trees could be used more often 6n city lots. Peach trees are not too large for small lots. In a larger space an old apple tres may drop ité fruit all over the lawn but how Jovely it is in spring and how the robins like to nest in it, ergreens? I've seen so many Aghting . each other for life in crowded “foundation plantings.” If you insist on using evergreens remember that like Junior, they'll grow, so make allowances or expansion, One successful local gardener purposely keeps her evergreens far apart in front of the house so she has room for flowers all season long. She prefers color to a solid mass of green, LJ . » YOU'LL WANT shrubbery. Shrub hedges are good for that much desired privacy, There's quite a vogue now for mixed flowering shrubs for such a hedge. Lilacs, weigela, forsythia, are just a few of those that

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