# The Lawn

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- Book: [The Lawn](https://www.bookquiver.com/virginia-jenkins/the-lawn) ([The Lawn.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/virginia-jenkins/the-lawn.md))
- Authors: [Virginia Jenkins](https://www.bookquiver.com/virginia-jenkins)
- Publisher: smithsonian_books
- ISBN: 978-15-6098-406-1
- Pages: 272
- Published: 1994-04-17
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Lawns now blanket thirty million acres of the United States, but until the late nineteenth century few Americans had any desire for a front lawn, much less access to seeds for growing one. In her comprehensive...