Defeating Drought
Now this Board of Green-keeping Research has just issued from Bingley Hall, Yorkshire, one of its rather rare and quite precious journals (price 2s. 6d.) ; and it has news for everyone who keeps a lawn, though its work is more and more closely connected with golf courses, from which its income is chiefly derived. Dry seasons (and alas, wells are still drying up) have stimulated a special line of enquiry. One essential conclusion is that grass which is rolled and trodden needs the fork almost as much as the flower garden or cabbage patch. Below the grasses may be a felted or earth pan so hard and unsympathetic that starvation to the roots must ensue. Invention has followed discovery ; and a good number of special forks—some with tubular tines— have been made with which we are strongly advised to " savage " our grass plots for their well-being. The whole passage on the duty of forking grass is an admirable example of the way to express scientific knowledge in practical terms. This journal might be called the Drought Number. It contains even research in well digging and the wells are as fully illustrated as the lawn weeds.
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