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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1909 



THE "HENDERSON" LAWN GRASS SEED 



IS USED AND PRAISED FROM MAINE TO CALIFORNIA. 



THERE is nothing more charming than a well-designed house 

 surrounded by artistically treated grounds; and of the essen- 

 tial features of home grounds none is so important as a 

 beautiful lawn — the rich, smooth, velvety turf being the heart 

 and life of all. 



A lawn may be formed by laying turf or by sowing seed. The 

 gain in time by sodding is so slight as to scarcely be worthy of 

 consideration, while the results obtained by both methods are not to 

 be compared. Sods separate in dry weather, leaving crevices about 

 which the grass dies out; then the grasses that compose a pasture 

 or roadside sod (generally the kind used for " sodding " lawns) are 

 not at all the best sorts for forming a perfect lawn, and will not 

 give a smooth, elegant surface. 



Regarding Kentucky Blue Grass, so widely advertised as an 

 ideal lawn grass, it has merits and demerits. Where Blue Grass 

 thrives it eventually makes a good lawn, but it is slow to thicken 

 up, requiring not less than two years to form a good sward, and 

 does not hold its color in hot weather; it will not thrive on acid 

 soils, and a large portion of soils in the lower altitudes, especially 

 in the Coast States, are inclined to acidity. Kentucky Blue Grass 

 is quite extensively used for lawns on the Pacific Coast and on the 

 limestone soils of Kentucky, etc., but the results of this or any 

 one grass in no way compare with the beauty and fine velvety 

 texture of lawns made with an intelligently blended mixture of 

 grasses of neat, close, interweaving growth, such as compose the 

 "Henderson" Lawn Grass mixture; and besides, the latter will 

 make a thick close turf in a few weeks' time. 



The " Henderson " Lawn Grass Seed produces a perfect and en- 

 during lawn of luxuriant richness, with closely interwoven, firm, 

 deep and elastic turf, and it is often ready for cutting in four 

 weeks from time of sowing. This celebrated Lawn Grass is com- 

 posed of a thoroughly balanced combination of various native and 

 loreign fine-leaved, deep-rooting grasses of interweaving habit, 

 that flourish under our varied conditions, soils and climates, grow- 

 ing during different seasons of the year, so that a deep green, 

 smooth, and velvety sward, free from clumps, is maintained from 

 snow to snow, year after year, and without burning brown in sum- 

 mer, its constant luxuriance rivaling the famous lawns of Old 

 England. 



The Beautiful Lawns at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 

 also at the World's Fair in Chicago, the Lewis and Clark Exposi- 

 tion in Portland, Oregon, and the Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, 

 Va., were produced in less than six weeks' time with The " Hen- 

 derson " Lawn Grass Seed, which was awarded the highest 

 medal at these Expositions; but what we prize more than gold 

 medals are the hundreds of letters of praise we have on file from 

 the users of The " Henderson " Lawn Grass Seed in almost 

 every State in the Union. 



The " Henderson " Lawn Grass Seed is, relatively speaking, the 

 cheapest seed offered, because, while other lawn grass mixtures 

 on the market will not average over 14 lbs. to the bushel, this, be- 

 ing freed from chaff, weighs 20 lbs. per measured bushel. It is 

 also the Purest, Cleanest, and Heaviest lawn grass seed ever 

 offered and it is absolutely free from weed seeds. 



Full Directions for Making new Lawns and Renovating old ones enclosed in every Bag and Package — = 



Our Catalogue "Everything for the Lawn" including our Brochure "Lawn Formation and Care," will be mailed free to those mentioning The Garden Magazine 



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either the pretentious lawn or 



the modest door-yard plot. 



15c. per pint, 25c. per quart, 

 85c. for 4 qts., $1.50 per peck, 

 $5.00 per bushel of 20 lbs. 



The quantity required for new lawns 



>ld lawns, use one-fourth 

 above quantities. 



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PETER HENDERSON & CO, 



35 AND 37 

 CORTLANDT ST. 



NEW YORK. 



