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R. <&*/. FARQUHAR &> CO.'S AUTUMN CATALOGUE. 



LAWN GRASS, 



SUGGESTIONS ON MAKING AND CARING FOR LAWNS. 



The ground selected for lawn, should have at least a foot in depth of good soil ; it should be thoroughly pulver- 

 ized and liberally enriched with well-rotted barn-yard dressing, dug well under, and the surface made perfectly 

 smooth. 



The seed sown should be a mixture of hardy, dwarf-growing grasses, free from the seeds of weeds, and when 

 used on light soils, a little white clover should be added, say one pound to the bushel. 



The seeds should be lightly raked in and the ground rolled to make the surface firm. 



Perhaps the best time of the year to sow a new lawn is September; the natural seeds of weeds which are 

 present in even' soil do not start then, and the grass gets a season's growth in advance of the weeds. The next 

 best season is early spring, the earlier the better, so that the grass may get started as much as possible before 

 indigenous weeds. 



The after care of a lawn is also important. It should be regularly cut, otherwise the coarser grasses will grow 

 up and choke out the finer sorts, thus destroying the smooth velvety surface so much to be desired. It should be 

 regularly enriched by top-dressing with good abatoir lawn dressing, fine ground bone, unleached wood ashes, etc. 

 Lawn dressings composed entirely of chemicals, should be used cautiously and applied only when the grass is dry. 

 Barn-yard manure should never be used to top-dress lawns; it usually contains seeds of noxious weeds from the 

 hay, which when introduced, are difficult to exterminate. 



Every spring the lawn should be raked over with a steel garden rake, which will take out dead grass and 

 scratch the ground somewhat. A little lawn grass seed should be scattered over bare or thin spots, and the whole 

 rolled to render the surface even and firm. 



Farquhar's Evergreen Lawn Grass. A mixture of dwarf, hardy persistent grasses pro- 

 ducing a close, deep green, velvety turf. Only fresh, clean seeds, of high germination 

 are used. Our Grass Seeds are celebrated throughout New England and are extensively 

 used in the parks of Boston, the Newport and Lenox estates and other leading summer 

 resorts. Per bushel, $4.00; per peck, $1.00 ; per 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 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 extended knowledge can 

 suggest. The seed is fresh, clean and free from weeds, producing a perfect, velvety 

 green turf in a remarkably short time. 



G2 lbs., sufficient for o tie acre (43, 5G0 square feet) ;?15.00 



31 lbs , sufficient for one-Jialf acre, (21,780 square feet) .... 7.50 

 10 lbs., sufficient for otie-quarler acre, (10,890 square ft) . . . • 4.00 



1 lb , sufficient for 700 square 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. 



