Your Plants

A smooth lawn, James Sheehan insists, needs no tree or shrub to charm—but the wrong patch of ground can spoil it before a single blade appears.

In this late-nineteenth-century guide to gardens and houseplants, Sheehan starts with the essentials: where to lay a lawn, what soil to prepare, and which seeds to trust. His brisk, practical counsel is for the amateur gardener facing wet ground, stale potting soil, doubtful seed, or a plant that looks too sickly to feed. A sound lawn, he argues, begins long before the grass grows—and even a favorite remedy can do harm when used at the wrong time. Which small choices will turn struggling plants into a garden worth tending?

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