22 R. & J. FARQUHAR & CO’S SEED CATALOGUE. 
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 Speciai Mixture of Grasses for Lawns is celebrated throughout New England for producing a perfect, rich, deep-green 
4ward from early spring till late in fall. The varieties are specially selected, tested, and blended by us, and the lawns made from our formulas 
are unsurpassed anywhere for beauty and color. 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., sutiicient for one acre (43,560 square ft.,) $15.00 | 16ds., sufficient for ove-guarter acre (10,890 sq.ft.) $4.00 
31 /és., sufficient for oe-halfacre (21,780 sq. ft.,) 7-50 | 1 20., sufficient for 700 sguare feet . ». . . . . .30 
Add eight cents per pound to these prices if 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 Baii Grounds. : 
EVIDENCES OF QUALITY. 
City Hall, Camoridge, Mass., Oct. 30. 
Gentlemen,—I have used your Law Grass Seeds on our parks, etc., for a number of years with great sates 
faction, finding them fresh, free from weed seeds, and very durable. Yours truly, 
JAMES DOHERTY, City Forester. 
Metropolitan Purk 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 ) fi— S— C—, Secretary. 
Newport, R. 1., 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 
J 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. 
