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Luke Joseph Doogue

b. 1865

A practical early-20th-century gardening writer, this author is best known for Making a lawn (1912), a guide focused on creating and maintaining home lawns. Reliable biographical details appear to be scarce, which gives the work an added sense of historical curiosity.

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Making a Lawn

Making a Lawn

by Luke Joseph Doogue

About the author

Published in New York in 1912, Making a lawn is the clearest confirmed work connected with Luke Joseph Doogue, who is identified in library records as born in 1865. The book was issued as part of the House and Garden making books series and centers on the care and planning of lawns for home landscapes.

Beyond that, readily available sources provide only a thin sketch of the person behind the book. No well-supported broader biography was found during this search, so it is safest to remember Luke Joseph Doogue as a little-documented author whose surviving reputation rests mainly on this concise gardening manual.

That limited record is part of the appeal: the book offers a small window into the tastes and practical concerns of domestic gardening in the early 1900s.