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LAWN GRASS. 
EXTRA CLEAN, PURE, FRESH, AND TESTED SEED. 
We make a specialty of Grass Seeds, and send out only such as will meet the approval of the most critical. 
Our Special Mixture of Grasses for Lawns is celebrated throughout New England for producing a perfect, rich, deep-greer 
sward from early spring till late in fall. The varieties are specially selected, tested, and blended by our Mr. James Farquhar, for many years 
Superintending Gardener at Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston. Asa result of our ‘care in invariably furnishing clean, pure, fresh Lawn Seed, 
our trade in this specialty is enormous. We annually furnish seed for the parks and gardens of Boston, and ship large quantities to Newport, 
Bar Harbor, and other leading summer resorts. 
FARQUHARS’ EVERGREEN LAWN GRASS. | Specially reliable mixture of dwarf, hardy, fine-leaved 
grasses; only fresh seeds, the growth of which has been thoroughly tested. 
Per Bushel of sixteen pounds, $4.00; peck, $1.00; quart, 20 cents. By mail, postage-paid, peck, $1.50; 
quart, 25 cents. 
NEW BOSTON PARKS LAWN-SEED. We have received from Messrs. Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot 
their formula used in seeding the beautiful lawns and terraces of Boston’s new parks. 
Franklin Park and in fact all of the Metropolitan parks have been planned by this firm of eminent landscape 
architects, and their formula for the Lawn-Grass Seed mixture used may be accepted as the best which 
great experience and very extended knowledge can suggest. 
In proof of the genuineness of the formula we use for our New Boston Parks Lawn-Seed we can produce: 
the original formula as sent us direct by Messrs. Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot. 
The seed is fresh, clean and free from weeds, producing a perfect, velvety green turf in a remarkably short time. 
The New Boston Parks Lawn Mixture is put up by us in packages of the following sizes: 
62 /bs., sufficient for ove acre (43,560 square ft.,) $15.00 | 16ds., sufficient for one-quarter acre (10,890 sq.ft.) $4.00 
31 2bs., sufficient for oe-half acre (21,780 sq. ft.,) 7-50 | I 26., sufficient for 700 sguare feet 3 AZo 
Add eight cents per pound to these prices tf wanted by mail. 
ENGLISH LAWN GRASS, FINEST MIXTURE. Per bushel, $3.00; peck, 75 cents; quart, 20 cents 
By mail, post-paid, peck, $1.25; quart, 25 cents. 
Special quotations given on application for large quantities; also for mixtures of Grasses specially adapted for 
shady places, Lawn Tennis, Croquet, and Base Ball Grounds. 
EVIDENCES OF QUALITY. 
City fall, Camoridge, Mass., Oct. 30. 
Gentlemen,—/ have used your Lawyt Grass Seeds on our parks, etc., for a number of years with great satis- 
Jaction, finding them fresh, free from weed seeds, and very durable. Yours truly, 
JAMES DOHERTY, City Forester. 
Metropolitan Park Commission, Boston, Mass., Oct. 2. 
Messrs. R. & J. Farquhar & Co., Boston: 
Dear Sirs,—FPlease send to Beaver Brook Reservation, as per enclosed shipping tag, — — Grass Seeds. 
(Signed ) : H— S— C—, Secretary. 
Newport, R. I., Nov. 30. 
Dear Sirs,—It gives me pleasure to say that the Lawn Grass Seed you have furnished for Mr. Vanderbilt’s 
estate here has been very fine, the grass being clean, velvety, dwarf, very hardy and admirably suited to our pur- 
pose. The fine, dark-green shade of our lawn is a feature of the estate,and I think your seed is by far the best 
L can get. Yours truly, R. HUNNICK,F. W. Vanderbilt estate. Rough Point. 
Lawn Fertilizers of various manufactures furnished at lowest rates. See Fertilizers. 
Directions for Making Lawns. See page 24. 
