




120—Lawn Grasses 




LAWN AT BRIAR CREST SOWN WITH MAULE’S EXTRA LAWN GRASS MIXTURE. 
Nore.—The following mixtures, based upon experience. wiil be tound bighly satisfactory. 
None but the finer grasses are employed, and only seeds that have been thor- 
They are made of the best components to be had on the market. 
oughly cleaned. J wilil cheerfully compound grass mixtures to order. 


The purpose of each is suggested by its name. 

This mixture will insure a beautiful, compact, evergreen sod on any 
lawn where the essential requirements of grass culture have been com- 
plied with. Its component parts are the grasses peculiarly adapted to 
lawns and door yards, including choice selected strains of Kentucky 
Blue, ete., along with the best known creeping or sod forming 
sorts. I have included a little white clover in the mixture, regarding it 
as essential, but will omit it on special request. Timothy and orchard 
grass are wholly excluded, on account of their coarse leaves, and only 
fine sorts are employed. Full provision is made for a succession of 
growth, so that there shall be no break in the richness of the verdure 
from spring until autumn, and experience proves that Maule’s Extra 
Lawn Grass Mixture is now perfect. Nothing better can be purchased 
on the American market, no matter what claims may be advanced by 
other seedsmen. My friends will please note that this seed is sold by 
the bushel of 20 pounds, while some seedsmen sell a bushel weighing 

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Maule’s Extra Lawn Grass Mixture. 
only 14 pounds. This is because 1 employ the choicest and heaviest 
Strains of grass seed in making the mixture. 
soil, I recommend a thorough working and manuring to a depth of 8 or 
9 inches, anda regular semi-annual application of top dressing after- 
ward. It is a good practice to use well-rotted stable manure in the 
autumn and a complete fertilizer carrying potash, like Maule’s Pan- 
mure Plant Food, in the spring; also, to renovate the lawn every spring 
with a little fresh seed, using a quarter or a third the quantity employed 
in the original seeding. Grass seed should be sown in April or Sep- 
tember. Use 1 quart to 300 square feet of ground, or 1 bushel will sow 
a plot 100 feet wide and 108 feet long or 4 bushels per acre. Maule’s 
Extra Lawn Grass Mixture cannot be excelled for quality and vitality. 
Quart, 25 cents; 2 quarts, 45 cents; 5 quarts, $1.00, postpaid. 
By express or freight, not prepaid, peck, $1.50; bushel (20 lbs.), 
$5.00; 4 bushels, $17.50. 


Maule’s Quick Results Lawn 
Mixture. 
This mixture is for producing an immediate greensward that will be 
followed by a good, permanent sod. It is especially to be reeommended 
for late spring seeding, without a nurse crop. For early seeding I 
would rather use Maule’s Extra Lawn Grass Mixture, but after May lst 
(in the latitude of Philadelphia) I would much prefer this one. It will 
make rapid growth, and will be ready to cut two weeks or more in 
advance of any other mixture which I offer; nor is it lacking in per- 
manence. Qt., 25 cts.; 2 qts., 45 cts.; 5 qts., $1.00, postpaid. By 
express or freight, not prepaid, pk., $1.25; bu. (20 Ibs.), $4.00. 
“Maule’s Shady Lawn Mixture. 
This mixture is intended for all situations that are in partial or com- 
plete shade, and will be found invaluable on grounds lying under the 
shadows of trees or buildings. In preparing such places for the recep- 
tion of grass seeds it is well to use air slaked lime quite liberally (50 
bushels to the acre). The lime sweetens the land and wonderfully aids 
the growth of the grass. Lime will be found particularly effective in 
open woodlands where grass is desired. This mixture is adapted to its 
purpose. Qt., 30 cts.; 2 qts., 50 cts.; 5 qts., $1.10, postpaid. By ex- 
press or freight, not prepaid, peck, $1.50; bushel (15 Ibs.), $5.00. 

Maule’s Steep Slope Mixture. 
This is for banks, terraces, steep or exposed slopes and bare spots in 
general; in fact, for any place, however dry, stony or barren. It will 
produce a sod that is absolutely proof againstheat or drought, and that 
cannot be injured by cold. The grasses produce strong, spreading 
roots, thus preventing heavy rains from washing them out; will 
withstand exposure, thrives on shallow soils, and at the same time 
produce a rich, velvety green turf throughout the season. I recom- 
mend, however, the same fair treatment elsewhere asked for; that is, 
semi-annual top dressings of fertilizers or manures, in order to main- 
tain the vigor of the grasses. Quart, 20 cents; 2 quarts, 50 cents, 
5 quarts, $1.10, postpaid. By express or freight, not prepaid, 
peck, $1.25; bushel (15 pounds), $4.50. 
i Quantity of Seed to Sow. 
300 square feet. 

1 quart will sowa plot 15 x 20 feet 
peck ac ce BS FAN) oe 0) 188 2000 ue Ke 
1 bushel * “1 acre 100 x 108 ‘* 10800 0G ot 
4 66 66 66 1 66 209 x 209 6c 43681 66 66 
If intended for renovating an old lawn, about half the 
above quantities are sufficient for the given spaces, 

As to preparation of the 


