After 100 Years This Lawn Remains the Same

Recently I came across a catalog from Boston’s W. W. Rawson Seed Company for 1901.

An ad in the catalog listed Rawson’s Arlington Grass Seed as one of the items for  sale. The ad included a photo of a lawn in Wollaston, Massachusetts. [below]

Since the house in Wollaston on Grand View Avenue was not far away, I drove over and discovered the lawn had not changed in over a hundred years.

Here is the image from the seed catalog:

Here is the way the lawn looks today from the photo I took:

Not much different, is it?

Now you can see how long the lawn has been part of our landscape experience.  In 1901 homeowners needed a lawn because the Rawson Seed Company catalog illustrated its importance for a home landscape.

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