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'Ideal' lawns.(Your Letters)(Letter to the editor)

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| July 01, 2007 | Cadman, Paul | COPYRIGHT 2007 Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

I found your recent article "Your Greatest Lawn," in the May issue, to be worthy of some comment. It's one thing to evaluate and rate lawn products based on efficiency, price, and usefulness to the consumer, but it's something else to promote the American obsession with lawn care as an ideal, and that somehow these chemically fed, expensive and expansive, resource-reducing putting greens equate with "greatness."

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