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GRASS SEEDS FOR LAWNS 



EXTRA CLtAN, PURE AND FRESH. 



Our mixture of Grasses for Lawns is celebrated throughout New England as producing a most 

 perfect, rich, deep-green sward from early spring till late in fall. The varieties are specially selected, 

 tested, and blended by our Mr James Farquhar, for many years Suj)erintending Gardener at 

 Forest Bills Cemetery, Boston, where the lawns are one of the most beautiful and noted features. 

 As a result of our care in invariably furnishing clean, pure, fresh Lawn Seed, our trade in this spe- 

 -cialty is enormous. "NVe annually furnish seed for the parks and gardens of Boston, and ship large 

 <iuantities to Newport and other summer resorts. 



JParquhars' Lawn Grass. Specially reliable mixture of dwarf, hardy, fine-leaved 

 jijrasses ; only fresh seeds, — the growth of which has been thoroughly tested. 

 Per bushel of sixteen pounds, $4.00; peck, $1.25; quart, 20 cents. By mail; 

 Peck, $2.00, postage paid; quart, 30 cents, postage paid. 



^English Lawn Grass. Finest mixture. Per bushel, $3.00 ; peck, $1.00; quart, 

 20 cents. By mail: Peck, $1.50, postage paid; quart, 30 cents, postage paid. 



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. 



PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS ON MAKING LAWNS. 



The popular notion that " grass grows anywhere " is incorrect; the soil must be made suitable 

 if not naturally so. Before seeding, the ground must be well drained, heavily manured, and made 

 iine and friable by spade or plough, and harrow or rake, as the extent of the lawn or convenience 

 renders best. This part of the work is finished by the use of a heavy roller. We have proved that 

 pure crushed bone, or animal fertilizer containing bone and potash, are the best fertilizers to use, 

 supplying the elements required to give a robust and fine stocky growth, and the lawn a lasting deep- 

 green color. An application of four hvmdred or five hundred pounds per acre will generally be 

 sufficient. So many noxious weeds are introduced into the ground Avith barnyard manure that its 

 use is not recommended. 



Seeding. — It is a well-established fact that the most lasting and finest lawns result from seed- 

 ing and not from sodding The seed may be sown either in spring or fall. The ground being, we 

 will suppose, ^ilready well prepared and rolled previovis to sowing, should be gone over with a fine 

 rake, the seed then evenly scattered over the surface at the rate of four bushels per acre; the whole 

 should then be raked or bvished in, and again rolled. 



Good, Clean, Fresh Seed is a most important consideration in lawn-making. "Grass," says 

 Professor Martyn, " vulgarly forms one single idea. Not a few are ignorant of the fact that when 

 overlooking a field of grass, thirty or forty varieties may be in view." The varieties which our 

 experience has taught us are best adapted to successfully meet the jieculiarities of our climate, com- 

 pose our mixture. These hardy, compact>growing sorts, sown with due care, produce a fine, close, 

 velvety turf, which, with little attention, will continue beautiful for many years. 



After Treatment. — When the young grass has attained the height of three inches it should be 

 cut with a shan^ scythe. Nothing retards the after-growth more than too early cutting, or too close 

 croi)ping of the first shoots in spring. During summer a lawn should be cut every week or ten days 

 with a lawn-mower, except during dry weather; fre([uent mowings, and rolling are necessary to keep 

 a grass-plot in good condition. In the fall or early spring some good fertilizer should be applied as a 

 lop-dressing. 



For lawns requiring improvement, it is only necessary to soav our seed at the rate of a bushel 

 per acre. 



