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temperate zone, there are two periods of the 

 year when new lawns may be successfully 

 seeded — ^April to May, and again in Septem- 

 ber. There is no best date for sowing. In 

 the Northern States September and November 

 are generally preferred because the risk of 

 sudden drying out by excessively hot weather 

 after the seeds germinate is avoided. In 

 the Southern States November sees the 

 greatest amount of seeding. When seeding is 

 done in the spring it is usually, according to 

 location, sometime between February and 

 May, the earlier date of course referring to 

 the South. The point in spring seeding is 

 to get it done as soon as possible after the 

 ground is in workable condition. I have 

 seen lawns successfully sown in June and 

 even in July, but the practice is not to be 

 generally recommended as in the majority 

 of cases, and with the majority of people, 

 failure would result. 



If it is inconvenient to sow the lawn in 

 the fall it is a good practice to have the ground 

 thoroughly prepared then and seed at any 

 time during the winter. If the seed is 

 scattered over the surface of the snow it will 

 be washed into the earth when the thaws come 



