22 RAS? f-AROOCHAR "CO! S SEEDY GA TALOGUE. 
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-green 
sward 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. 
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS ON MAKING LAWNS. 
The popular notion that ‘‘ grass grows anywhere”? is incorr2ct; the soil must be made suitable if not naturally so. Before seeding, the 
ground must be well drained, heavily manured, and made fine 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 
owth, and the lawn a lasting deep-green color. An application of four hundred or five hundred pounds per acre will generally be sufficient. 
So many noxious weeds are introduced into the ground with barnyard manure that its use is not recommended. 
Seeding.—It is a well-established fact that the most lasting and finest lawns result from seeding and not from sodding. The seed may 
de sown either in spring or fall. The ground being, we will suppose, already well prepared and rolled previous 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 
bushed in, and again rolled. 
Good, Clean, Fresh Seed is a most important consideration in lawa 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 peculiarities of our climate, compose 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 sharp scythe. Nothing 
retards the after-growth more than Zoo early cutting or zoo close cropping of the first shoots in spring. Duringthe summer, a lawn should be 
cut every week or ten days with a lawn mower, except during dry weather; frequent mowings and rollings are necessary to keep a grass 
plot in good condition. In the fall or early spring, some good fertilizer should be applied as a top dressing. 
For lawns requiring improvement, it is only necessary to sow our seed at the rate of a bushel per acre. 
FARQUHARS’ EVERGREEN LAWN GRASS. Specially reliable mixture of dwarf, hardy, fine-leaved: 
grasses; only fresh seeds, the growth of which has been thoroughly ‘ested. 
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 /ds., sufficient for ove acre (43,560 square ft.,) $15.00 | 16Jds., sufficient for one-quarter acre (10,890 sq.ft.) $4.00° 
31 /ds., sufficient for ove-halfacre (21,780 sq. ft.,) 7-50 | 1 26., 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 cent 
By mail, post-paid, peck, $1.25; quart, 25 cents. 
