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PETER HENDERSON fkCO..IMFW YORK- 



SEEDS OF 



Special Grasses 



adapted for lawns 

 ...IN THE SOUTH... 



BERMUDA 



GH^SS SEED. 



For Lawn Formation in the Semi-Tropics. 



BERMUDA GRASS is the most important and valuable grass for lawns in 

 the extreme South. A well kept lawn of this grass is a refreshing and beauti- 

 ful sight. It is of low creeping habit, roots from the stem joints and forms a 

 dense sod. It will grow on almost any soil, thriving best on rich land, but 

 will also thrive on poor sandy land. In moist climates it will grow in nearly 

 pure sand, making a good sand binder and bank holder. It revels in the heat 

 and direct rays of the sun, remaining green through the long tropical and 

 sub-tropical summers, when any other type of grass adapted for lawns would 

 bum out. Although Bermuda Grass is especially adapted for lawn formation 

 in the extreme South, and may be 'grown as far north as Richmond, Va., and 

 St. Louis, without being winter killed, yet the further north it is grown the 

 shorter will be its season of green, as the foliage turns brown after the first frost 

 and does not " green out " until after frosts cease in spring. For this reason 

 in sections subject to frosts an associate winter grass, usually English Rye 

 Grass, is sown in the fall over the Bermuda Grass lawn after the surface has 

 been scarified. These two associate grasses thus furnish a green lawn the 

 year round in the Southern States. For lawn purposes sow 6 lbs. of Bermuda 

 Grass Seed per acre. It is best sown in the spring, as it germinates best in 

 warm weather. Price of Seed. 70c. per lb., 100 lbs. @ 60c. per lb. 



Jl Green Lawn the year 

 round in Georgia produced 

 with Bermuda Grass Seed 

 and English Hye Grass Seed. 



Messrs. P. Henderson & Co.: 



Gentlemen : I enclose you the details of my 

 plan in maintaining a green lawn the year 

 round in this climate, wlicre ordinary grasses 

 burn out in summer. TJie experiment has 

 been a success in every way, and you may 

 with confidence recommend this plan to your 

 Soutliern customers. 



Area \ acre, sowed tlie Bermuda Grass 

 Seed Jan. 31s/. Our soil is very light with 

 clay subsoil. I put it in good condition, 

 plowing in 200 lbs. Cotton Seed Meal 

 on the i acre, sowed the Bermuda Grass 

 Seed Jan. 31st (6 lbs. per acre). Sev- 

 eral subsequent_rollings with a light roller 

 had a good effect. On May 4th during 

 a rain broadcasted 12 lbs. of Nitrate of 

 Soda over the i acre with good results. This Bermuda Grass gave us a first- 

 class green lawn all summer, it stands mowing and cares for no drought; the first 

 frost kills it to the ground. October 2d applied a top dressing of rich soil and 

 cotton seed meal and raked in English Rye Grass Seed in tlie proportion of 50 lbs. 

 per acre and rolled the ground. The latter grass seed comes up in eight days, 

 in six weeks it is a nuzss of green and gives a good lawn all winter; it dies out in 

 May, leaving the ground clear for the Bermuda Grass, the roots of which survive 

 in tlie ground here through lite winter. 



Rtchard A. Wrench Thomasville, Ga. 



...KENTUCKY BLUE GRASS SEED... 



Often used for Lawns on Lime Stone Soils. 



KENTUCKY BLUE GRASS. This grass so beautiful and famous in the lime- 

 stone regions of Kentucky, etc., is so widely advertised as an ideal lawn grass, 

 that we wish to inform our patrons as to its merits and demerits. Where Blue 

 Grass thrives it does eventually make a good lawn. However, when used alone 

 it is slow to thicken up, requiring not less than 2 years to form a thick sward, 

 and does not hold its color in hot weather; it will not thrive on acid soils and a 

 large portion of soils in the lower altitudes, especially in the coast states, are 

 inclined to acidity. Kentucky Blue Grass is quite extensively used for lawns 

 on the Pacific Coast, but the results of this or any one grass in no way compare 

 with the beauty and fine velvety texture of lawns made with an intelligently 

 blended mixture of grasses of neat close interweaving growth, such as compose 

 the " Henderson " Lawn Grass mixture; and besides, the latter will make a 

 thick, close turf in less than one summer. 



For customers who know that Kentucky Blue Grass thrives on their land 

 and who are satisfied with the slow results, we will state that we furnish the 

 finest, cleanest, heaviest grade of seed on the market, freed from chaff and 

 impurities by our elaborate seed-cleaning machinery, Henderson's Superior 

 Recleaned Kentucky Blue Grass Seed, weighing 20 to 25 lbs per measured 

 bushel. 18c. per lb. $13.00 per 100 lbs., per standard bushel of 14 lbs., S2.10. 



