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 wiH 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-gree» 

 award 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. As a 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 incorrect; 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 

 erowth, 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 

 be sown either in spring or fall. The ground being, we will suppose, already well prepared and rolled previous to sowing, should be gone 

 #»er 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 

 boshed in, and again rolled. 



Good, Clean, Fresh Seed is a most important consideration in lawn making. " Grass," says Professor Martyn, "vulgarly forms 

 «ne 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 lias attained the height of three inches, it should be cut with a sharp scythe. Nothing 

 retards the after-growth more than too early cutting or too close cropping of the first shoots in spring. During the summer, a lawn should be 

 COt 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 tested. 

 Per Bushel of sixteen pounds, 54.00; 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 & Elk* 



theii 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 . 

 <m lbs., sufficient for one acre (43,560 square ft.,) $15.00 I 1 6 lbs., sufficient for one-quarter acre (10,890 sq.ft.) $4.00 



31 lbs., sufficient for one-half acre (21,780 sq.ft.,) 7.50 | I lb., sufficient for 700 square feet 30 



Add right 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, 2^ cents. 



