PKTER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK.— LAWN ESSENTIALS. 



Office of Director-General, 

 World's Columbian Exposition, 

 Chicago, 111., Dec 1st, i 893. 



Virnr lawns at the IVur/d's Columbian 

 Exposition were as nearly fer/cct as lawns 

 could be made. 7 he sod ivas dense ^ contaui 

 ing Tio extraneous weeds or grass, and the 

 color :ro7n every point viezved was uniJ'otJ i 

 in appearance. They uiere in excelle? t 

 condition during the entire period of th 

 World's Fair. J.M.SAMUELS, 



Chief, Dep't of Horticulture 



Office o! Director of Works, 

 World's Columbian Exposition, 

 Chicago, 111 , Oct. 25th, 1893. 



The ^^ Henderson'^ Lawn Grass Seed ivas 

 used on the World's Fair grounds, and it 

 affords vte pleasure to say that the quality 

 of the seed was first-class in every respect, 

 forjning lawns rapidly, "which stood the 

 droughts of the past sujnnter, making a 

 thick sod and is viore durable than any 

 other ive have used. R. ULRICH^ 



Sup't Landscape Dep't. 



THE ONLY LAWNS 



Granted A Medal .... At the World's Fair, 



Were those Sown by us with 



THE "HENDERSON" LAWN GRASS SEED. 

 AND BESIDES 



The Individual Grass Seeds we used on The "Henderson" Lawn Grass Mixtures 



Were Exhibited sr us at the World's Fair, 



And were Awarded Seven Highest Premiums 



FOR SUPERIOR QUALITY AND PURITY. 



A few of Thousands of Reports About 



THE 



'H enderson " 



Lawn 

 Grass 

 Seed. 



F. E. SHOBER, 



St. John's Rectory, 



Barrytown, N Y. 



'4n the circular enclosed with the 



'Henderson' Lawn Grass Seed 



shipped me in the spring, 1 saw the 

 statement that seed sown April 

 25th one season was mowed twice 

 by July ist. I can go ahead of that record. 1 sowed at the rate 



you advise, on April 28th, and mowed with a large horse 

 mower three times before July 1st, and but for the «et 



weather and press of work could have mowed four times But 

 when I did cut on July 3d, it was so long as to rt-quire raking to 

 keep the dry grass from showing (this was the fourth cutting). 

 Now the lawn is Hke velvet, and I believe 1 could cut excellent sod 

 in almost any place over the \\ hole piece Of course the season 

 has been exceptional : but I am ahead of a neighbor who sowed 

 last fall, and of another who sow«d when I did as he has hardly 

 seen a square foot of grass to speak of. Both of them used differ- 

 ent seed from mine." 



" For eight or nine years my 



CAROLINA p. H ILLS, lawn has been sown with your grass 



Rochester Cottage, seed and strewn with your feriil- 



IVlasS. izer. and there is no neater lawn 



on the island. I have one of your 



lawn mowers and one of your rollers. My last purchase was grass 



seed for a small place I own, where the soil is poor and sandy. It 



■was sown early in the spring and has proved to be wonderfully 



adapted to so barren a spot. Indeed it has greatly exceeded my 



expectations in making so rapid a growth, although we are subject 



here to severe drought and have to depend greatly on sprinkling 



and wateiing." 



'■I bought two bushels last fall of 

 your "Henderson" Lawn Seed, and 

 it did remarkably well and has at- 

 Iractedagreat deal of attention from its beauty and quick growth." 



H. L. BUCK, 



Springfield, Mo. 



" The lawn grass which I bought 

 ELLA C. POND, of you in April, gave entire satis- 



faction, although it had no oppor- 

 BerVceley, Col. tunity to do its best on my place, 

 where the soil is a stiff adobe, in 

 some places not a foot deep, overlaying a bed of gravel. Water 

 runs through it as through a sieve. Before planting my own lawn, 

 I had the year before bought the same kind of seed, Henderson 

 Lawn Grass, fcr a small place I was laying out, and that bit of 

 lawn is as perfect a piece of turf as I could wish to see. It is on 

 better soil but exposed to the full glare of the sun all the year, and 

 the first season after it was planted it had no water for six weeks, 

 and yet it did not even turn brown. I think it an excellent grass 

 for this climate, and one of its chief merits is its being such clean 

 .seed — my lawn is absolutely free from weeds." 



PETER FRAYNE, 

 Exeter, Ont. 



" I do not consider I would be 

 doing you justice if I did not thank 

 you for the Lawn Grass Seed that 

 I got from you last spring, and in 

 doing so I must say it is the best 

 seed I ever saw, and I was more than surprised to see the very nice 

 lawn that it produced. In six or eight weeks from the time it was 

 sown it covered the ground so thick that every person who saw it 

 thought that I must have had my ground sodded, but it far sur- 

 passes any sodding I ever saw, or any seeding. 'This is not only 

 my testimony, but the opinion of every one who has seen it." 



NORIVIAN L. MONRO, 

 Norwood Park, N.J, 



" The lawn seeds which we 

 bought from your house have 

 turned out splendidly. The 

 lawns at "Norwood Park" cannot be excelled. 1 mean to sow 44 

 acres the coming spring with the same combination." 



