Cutting Of Boston: Cutting of Boston secured three patents for improvements: for the addition of camphor and of potassium bromide to the collodion, and for the use of fir balsam to cement a cover glass to the plate. Cutting vigorously prosecuted profes¬sionals who were using his technique without securing licenses, which cost upwards of $1000 for a city of 5000 inhabitants.
Inside Out : Weaving Arts into the Urban Fabric
The Boston Center for the Arts is sponsoring a two-stage, national open design competition for its public open spaces in Boston's South End neighborhood.
Set at the crossroads of widely divergent social groups and communities, the Boston Center for the Arts' campus includes theatres, art galleries, artist studios, the Boston Ballet, restaurants, residences, and the iconic Cyclorama in a tightly knit urban block that connects its many publics through the performing and visual arts.See Also The Cutting Garden:You might think that cutting fresh flowers both for friends and for the homefront would quickly deplete our flower garden. Not so. Rather than denude various parts of our permanent flower garden to fill a vase, my wife and I have included an old Victorian idea in our garden plan: a cutting garden. We grow an abundance of annuals for color, plus a few choice perennials, all specifically grown for bouquets.
In fact, the cutting garden is often more fun to contemplate than j the regular perennial bed or the rock garden. In the formal flower bed,! plans are often projected over several years and mistakes are not] always evident until it's too late for quick action. But the cutting garden j offers no such constraints; in it change can be enjoyed for change's j sake, experimentation can be the password.
On The Other Hand See Established Cutting Height:Once started, mow whenever growth necessitates. With most grasses as soon as they are half to three quarters of an inch to one inch higher than established cutting height. This may mean once a week at times, but in periods of rapid growth twice-a-week attention is necessary, and when growth is slow more time may elapse be¬tween mowings. It pays to mow frequently and to take a little each time rather than a lot. Don't let the grass get so high before mowing that after cutting it looks yellowish or brownish. This is an invitation to crab grass; diseases and pests. If bad weather prevents mowing before the grass is con¬spicuously longer than proper, raise the cutting height a little at the first mowing and gradually bring it to normal at subse¬quent cuttings.
Northern lawns, except those of creep¬ing bent, are best cut to a height of one and a quarter to one and a half inches, or slightly higher on shaded areas and banks. In really hot weather raise the cutting height an extra half inch. Give the last mowing of the season so that the grass goes into winter two to three inches long. Lawns of creeping bent may be cut to a height of from one inch to less than half an inch.
Southern lawns of subtropical grasses are generally mowed to a height of one inch. Temporary winter lawns of ryegrass are cut at one and a quarter inches.
Mowing machines should be used when the grass is dry, scythes and sickles when it is slightly moist. For the kinds of mowers see Chapter 16.
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