MAKING AND CARE 



asked for the best kinds of lawn-grass seeds 

 may tempt some to substitute a cheaper article 

 which ignorant or unscrupulous dealers may 

 claim to be as good as the best, but whoever 

 does this will be making a mistake. The best 

 is the cheapest. 



It will be seen, in reading the catalogues of 

 the seedsmen, that a thick sowing is advised. 

 Some persons have told me that they believed 

 this to be advice given with a view to selling a 

 larger quantity of seed, and they have accord- 

 ingly ignored it and bought a smaller quantity 

 than was advised. The result is invariably 

 unsatisfactory. You will be obliged to wait 

 one or two years for a good sward if you sow 

 your lawn thinly, but thick sowing will give 

 you a very satisfactory sward the first year, 

 and a thick, deep one the second season. The 

 extra amount of money required for thick 

 sowing will be found well invested. 



The proper time for sowing the seed is on a 

 still, rather damp day. If a brisk wind is 

 blowing the seed will be scattered where you 

 do not want it to go. Even a slight breeze will 

 carry it quite a distance, and the variations of 

 the wind at sowing-time will be shown on the 

 lawn by thick grass here and thin grass there, 



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