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and brought into such intimate contact with 

 the soil that its early germination and per- 

 fect stand is a foregone conclusion. On 

 very wet soils seeding in the summer time is 

 advisable. 



For summer seeding, oats at the rate of one 

 quart to three hundred may be added to the 

 regular lawn grass mixture. This grass ger- 

 minates very quickly and endures the hot weath- 

 er well. It will act as a "nurse" to the other 

 grasses which will be thus encouraged to 

 make a growth. The oats will not interfere 

 with the lawn grasses and they are killed en- 

 tirely by the cutting of the mower, which 

 prevents their seeding. So marked is the 

 nursing effect of oats that it is a valuable 

 addition at any time when sowing a lawn 

 mixture on banks or terraces. Its quick 

 root development assists greatly in holding the 

 soil until the permanent grasses come into 

 possession. This is a practical method of 

 obviating the necessity of turfing on terraces. 



THE ART OF SOWING 



Lawn grass seed is sown broadcast. It 

 must be evenly distributed over the entire 

 surface of the ground, and at the rate of not 



