The Seeding and Care of Golf Courses 



wide range of adaptation to soil. Even on sand, which is 

 likely to be more or less acid, it has been found in some 

 cases to do better than any other turf plant. 



Redtop does well on acid soil and in wet, sour areas is to 

 be preferred to Blue-grass. It has also the virtue of cheap- 

 ness and its use in a mixture greatly reduces the cost of seed- 

 ing- 



Chewings' Fescue, which is ordinarily considered a grass 

 for the putting-green, is exceptionally fine for the fairway. 

 In seasons such as the present, it is likely to be extensively 

 used. It is now but little more expensive than Blue-grass 

 and, if mixed with Redtop, the cost will not be excessive. 



Chewings' Fescue should also be used under trees and 

 around shrubbery as, unlike Blue-grass, it does well in the 

 shade. 



White clover is sometimes sown in the fairway mixture, 

 and, being a legume, it has the advantage of enriching the 

 soil by nitrogen taken from the air. 



Italian and Perennial Rye-grasses are inexpensive and 

 may be used in the mixture, especially for quick growth. 



MIXTURES 



COMMERCIAL mixturcs in which the various grasses 

 and their proportions are matters of mystery, are 

 to be avoided. There is no magic mixture and no secret 

 formula for making the best turf. A mixture of ordi- 

 nary grasses, under a fancy name, may be sold at an 

 exorbitant price, while the cost of pure seed of any 

 particular variety must be held in bounds, being deter- 



