THE TRUTH ABOUT LAWN MIXTURES 89 



nine cases out of every hundred. If you can 

 afford to wait two or three years for the lawn 

 to assume a properly green appearance, it 

 may be safe to seed it with one kind of grass. 



"But these extra grasses are wasted ?" you 

 inquire. I do not think so. It is true that the 

 lawn will eventually become a blue grass lawn, 

 but that will not be until several years after 

 the making, and in the meantime you will 

 have a lawn to enjoy. Moreover the quick 

 growing grasses exclude weeds, and you get a 

 better turf because you get more grass plants 

 to the square foot than if only one grass is sown. 



When a large area is to be turned into a 

 lawn, and the preparation of the soil can be 

 carried out practically without regard to the 

 cost, and there is no hurry about results, it 

 may be good to sow only one kind of grass. 

 But in actual practice these ideal conditions 

 rarely, if ever, exist; and particularly on the 

 average small lawn around the suburban 

 home there are various conditions of shade, 

 partial shade, drainage, and soil. 



The chances are that the contractor has 

 spread over the former top soil a rich assort- 

 ment of sundry materials of totally different 

 characters. The proper method of remaking 



