QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 19 



A. Yes, if the farm is often or more acres, Length of 



94. Q. Do you recommend long or short rows for vegetable garden Kows. 

 culture? 



A. Long lands, where animal power is used, are much to be preferred 

 to short fields, as much time is saved in turning ; for example, a plow 

 team in a journey of eight hours, plowing land seventy-eight yards long, 

 spends four hours and thirty-nine minutes on the headlands, whereas, 

 were" the furrows two hundred and seventy-four yards long, the time 

 spent iu turning would be but one hour and nineteen minutes. 



95. Q. Is amateur or market gardening a business easily learned ? Gardening 

 A. To raise ordinary vegetables not much experience is necessary, but Experience. 



a complete knowledge of the art of gardening can only be acquired by 

 much experience and quick perception. 



96. Q. How should I make a lawn. Lawn. 

 A. The Landreth lawn grass mixture which we offer should not be 



compared with the cheaper preparations advertised. Our prescription is 

 of the best chosen varieties, as respects color, texture and permanency, 

 and will be found clear of weed seeds. Any one who purchases cheap, 

 badly mixed lawn grass will soon realize that it was a poor investment, 

 as the error will stand out for years in glaring ugliness. 



This prescription consists of 100 parts, divided in such proportion be- 

 tween those grasses which our observation has indicated as best for general 

 park effect, as respects color, density of herbage, vigor, quick recupera- 

 tion after mowing and permanency. The seeds used are all well cleaned, 

 and we believe them to be pure and of full vitality, and all persons using 

 them are certain to secure a stand, provided the land be properly prepared 

 and the seed sown at the proper time and at the right depth, and pro- 

 vided there be sufficient rainfall to germinate the seed. We cannot be 

 responsible for the errors of the inexperienced. A pound of seed will 

 sow a space 20 x 20 feet, or say 400 square feet. Sixty pounds will sow 

 an acre, but we recommend seventy or eighty pounds. Price per pound, 

 about 25 cents. 



Much of the success of lawn making depends upon the preparation of 

 the ground. The land must be well plowed or dug and harrowed or 

 raked to secure thorough pulverization, and after being reduced to a per- 

 fectly even surface should be cleared of stumps, stones, roots and other 

 impediments. The soil should then be made firm with a heavy roller and 

 top-dressed with a good fertilizer, unless the laud had received an appli- 

 cation of seven to eight tons of very short well-rotted stable manure 

 before plowing. "We will here remark that stable manure is the best of 

 all fertilizers, but there being some difllculty iu obtaining it and objections 

 to its use on account of its offensive appearance and smell, we recommend 

 in Landreth lawn fertilizer a good grade of concentrated fertilizer. Six 

 to seven hundred pounds to the acre of such mixture should be applied. 

 The fertilizer should be lightly harrowed in upon the seedbed, as it will 

 be lost to the young plants if buried much beneath the surface. After 



