Frank J. Scott. (1870) The Art of Beautifying the Home Grounds: “Whoever spends the early hours of one summer day, while the dew spangles in the grass, in pushing these grass cutters over a velvety lawn, breathing the fresh sweetness of the morning air and the perfume of the new mown hay, will never rest contented in the city.” (61)

(Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Print.)