If the soil is good, and the seed first-rate, your sward will be green the first season.
Turfs make a lawn somewhat quicker than seed.

The best are cut from the road-side, but it is a hateful despoiling of one of the fairest of travellers' joys.

Those who commit this highway robbery should reckon themselves in honour bound to sow the bare places they leave behind.
Some people cut the pieces eighteen inches square, some about a yard long and twelve inches wide.

Cut thin, roll up like thin bread-and-butter.

When they are laid down, fit close together, like bits of a puzzle, and roll well after laying.