From the high ground in Rutland, Wachusett stands off to the northeast, and in October everything between goes red and rust. Rutland Nurseries, Inc. spends that month the way it spends the others — mowing while the grass still asks for it, holding the edges tight, then clearing leaves off the turf load by load until the lawn is clean and breathing again. Spring puts the crew on the same properties with rakes instead, opening the ground up for the first cut of the year. Seven or eight months of steady weeks add up to a lawn people are glad to pull into. That is the whole point of the trade.