Food for use ^o pounds of seed per acre, Kentucky blue grass 40 to 45 

 ants pounds, and for Bermuda grass 15 pounds. If for any reason 

 122 the soil cannot be properly prepared, 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, broad- 

 cast per acre in the spring enough of a fertilizer to supply 100 

 pounds of actual potash and 50 pounds of available phos- 

 phoric acid; also, use at the same time and in the same man- 

 ner, 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 grow- 

 ing 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 situa- 

 tions, 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 have good plants to 

 set out at the opening of the ground. They require tying for 

 a few days, when grown to blanch. Lettuce requires good 

 ground, enriched with thoroughly rotted manure and well 



