1 8 Making a Lawn 



repay the trouble. Test the seeds. Make 

 shallow boxes and fill them with loam, 

 and sow each kind of seed just as you 

 would on a lawn. Put a label at the head 

 of the box and on it the time of sowing 

 the seed. Do this with as many as you 

 can. Then watch and make notes of 

 the time it takes for germination. Note 

 also the character of the blades. Having 

 finished this you will have a very liberal 

 education in the subject of grass. 



Should you not care to do as suggested 

 above, you will be dependent on others to 

 get what you most need. If you should 

 go to a dozen people and ask them to sug- 

 gest a combination of seeds, they would 

 all give them readily to you, but no two 

 proportions would be alike. If you should 

 ask for a single grass, the majority would 

 suggest Kentucky Blue Grass. For a 

 single grass there is nothing better suited 



