author
Luke Joseph Doogue
b. 1865
Best known for a compact 1912 guide to lawn-making, this practical early gardening writer focused on the hands-on work behind a healthy yard. His surviving published record is slim, but his book still circulates through major public-domain and library collections.
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Making a Lawn
by Luke Joseph Doogue
About the author
Luke Joseph Doogue was an American writer born in 1865. The clearest confirmed record of his work is Making a Lawn, published in New York by McBride, Nast & Company in 1912 as part of the House and Garden Making Books series.
The book’s lasting appeal is its plain, useful approach. Rather than treating lawn care as decoration alone, it presents it as a craft that depends on preparation, seed choice, soil, and steady upkeep. That practical focus has helped the book remain available through Project Gutenberg and library digitization projects long after its original publication.
Very little biographical information about Doogue is easy to confirm from reliable public sources, so it is safest to remember him through the work itself: an early 20th-century gardening author whose small handbook kept finding new readers.