(French gazon),
the section of the earth with specially created grassy cover, b. h. it
is exact and briefly cut. Distinguish parternye, park, sport and
Moorish (multicolored) G.
parternyes g. - basic element of flower garden and parquet, they serve
as background for the flower cultivations, the decorative trees, and
also for the sculptures, fountains other park and Moorish g. arrange
in the parks, the gardens, the squares, and so forth the seeds of
grasses on g. sow mainly in spring, by hand on the avenues either by
seeder in two mutually perpendicular directions, they seal by rakes or
mekhanizir. by way roll up. The composition of grasses for g. is
selected so as to obtain thick herbage and dense turf. From the
gramineous grasses they will sow in essence of myatlik, the fescue,
rye grass, spear grass (15-30 g of seeds on 1 m2). For Moorish g. they
compose the mixture of the seeds of cereals and beautifully
efflorescent annual plants (poppy, vasilek, kalendula, iberis, etc.).
Care of g. consists of the irrigations, the fertilizer,
hair-cutting of grass, regiment of weeds, sowing of grasses.
Lit.: Saakov s. g., lawns and flower
formulation, M. - l., 1934; Fry i. M., landscaping building p
economy. 3 publ.. M., 1962.
