ESTABLISHED 1889. 
F. W. BOLGIANO’S 
1900 NATIONAL CAPITOL 49909 
LAWN GRASS. 
One Pound, 25c. 25 Pounds, $4.50. It Never Fails to Give Satisfaction. 
Having made the selection of Fine Lawn Grasses a specialty for many years, we are enabled 
to offer an article superior in all respects, and acknowledged by 
all who have used it to be the best. 
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Grass is Nature’s Carpet, and when a lawn is composed of suitable grasses, compactly covering 
the entire surface, it becomes a surpassing pleasure and ornamentation. The eye never tires of the 
delicate evergreen so restful to the sight. Lawns should be sown with blended grasses, which will 
hold their green through the hot, dry summer, and not lose color during the “freezes” of winter. 
A first-class lawn will continue indefinitely its beautiful, velvet surface, and can be kept in peren- 
nial freshness by an annual top dressing of fertilizer or manure. A level surface is preferred for 
lawns to avoid washes at the time of severe freshets, but a gentle incline may be desirable and is 
certainly beautiful. Springtime and autumn are the favorite seasons for making lawns, but any 
time from early spring to fall will do, unless a severe protracted drought prevails. Spade deeply, 
make the ground fine, smooth and mellow; then rake the soil and sowthe seed Ifa rain occurs 
simultaneously with the seed sowing, it will cover the seed enough; but if dry, the soil should be 
pressed with the back of a spade or rolled with a light roller. A suitable fertilizer should be incor- 
porated with the soil when the lawn is being prepared, and bone is preferred because its fertilizing 
quality is gradually imparted to the soil, and its effect is lasting. A top dressing at any time imparts 
new thrift to the sod. Be careful to sow the seed regularly and evenly over the entire surface, 
otherwise bare spaces will disfigure the lawn; but when this happens rake over the bare places and 
sow seed there. Be liberal in the use of seed when making a lawn, for, if done rightly, a young, 
healthy, beautiful, velvet green sod will soon delight the eye and reward all labor and expense. 
One pound Bolgiano’s Recleaned Lawn Grass Seed will go as far as four quarts grass seed sold 
by the measure. Add 7 cents per pound on Lawn Grass if to go by mail. 
F. W. BOLGIANO, 
935 B Street, N. W., 1359 14th Street, N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. 
TELEPHONE 896. 
