Grading: The first actual
work in lawn making
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- GRADING: THE FIRST ACTUAL WORK to put the landscape
scheme into effect is usually, and rightly,
the grading. The house is nearly finished,
but all about outside is a confusion
of piles of dirt and builder's debris.
How shall any order ever be brought out
of such chaos? How can gardens ever be
made to bloom where now is a welter of
waste lumber? In spite of all this, a
few days' work with a team and scoop
makes a surprising difference in the
looks of things. The grading operation
is usually tacked onto the general house
contract with the idea, perhaps, that
the builder will take it on at no added
cost for the sake of getting the job
of building the house. Sometimes this
may be true, but more often it is not.
The work must, and should be, paid for;
that being the case, isn't it better
to have it done by a landscape contractor
who knows topsoil from hardpan, and recognizes
a tree when he sees one, than by someone
who doesn't know these things and didn't
particularly want to do the job anyway?
It has been the writers' experience that
when the building contractor does the
grading it is seldom done carefully,
After all, grading isn't simply a matter
of reducing the whole plot to a flattened
cone sloping out in all directions from
the house, which is left perched on the
apex. But that is what is most commonly
found unless proper precautions are taken. next
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