use 50 pounds of seed per acre, Kentucky blue grass 40 *°^ or 

 to 45 pounds, and for Bermuda grass 15 pounds. If — 

 for any reason the soil cannot be properly prepared, X S9 

 pulverize the fertilizer very fine indeed. The grass 

 should be mowed regularly and the clippings removed 

 until nearly midsummer when they are best left on the 

 soil as a mulch. For a good lawn, broadcast per acre in 

 the spring enough of a fertilizer to supply 100 pounds of 

 actual potash and 50 pounds of available phosphoric 

 acid; also, use at the same time and in the same manner, 

 a top-dressing of 300 pounds per acre of Nitrate of Soda. 

 By the end of June repeat the Nitrate top-dressing, 

 using only 100 pounds of the material. At any time 

 through the growing season, yellow spots or lands should 

 be given a light top-dressing of Nitrate, and thoroughly 

 wet down if possible. Lawns are very different from 

 field crops as they are not called upon to mature growth 

 in the line of seed productions, and they may safely be 

 given applications of Nitrate whenever the sickly green 

 color of the grass appears, which shows that digestible 

 or- Nitrated ammonia is the plant food needed. These 

 applications of plant food must be continued each year 

 without fail, and all bare or partly bare spots well 

 raked down and reseeded. If absolutely bare, these 

 spots should be deeply spaded. On very heavy clay 

 soils, and in low situations, a drainage system must be 

 established. 



Lettuce. 



Culture. — Sow in hotbeds in March, and in the 

 open ground as soon as it can be worked, and transplant 

 to rows 8 inches apart. Sow in two weeks' time same 

 varieties again, as also Cos, for a succession. In August 

 sow any of the varieties. In October some of these may 

 be planted in frames, to head in winter and early spring. 

 Always sow thin, and thin out well, or the plants will 

 not be strong. The last spring sowing had better be 

 grown where sown, being thinned out to 6 or 8 inches 

 apart. To have Cos in good order they must be sown 

 in a hotbed early in the year, and transplanted to a 

 coldframe, so as to hare good plants to set out at the 

 opening of the ground. They require tying for a few 



