THE "HENDERSON" LA.WN GRA.SS SEED 



DELIVERED FREE IN THE U. S. 

 = IS USED AND PRAISED JPROAI MAINE TO CALIFORNIA. = 



THERE is nothing more charming than a well-designed 

 house surrounded by artistically treated grounds ; and of 

 the essential features of home grounds none is so important 

 as a beautiful lawn — the rich, smooth, velvety turf being the 

 heart and life of all. 



A lawn may be formed by laying turf or by sowing seed. 

 The gain in time by sodding is so slight as to scarcely be worthy 

 of consideration, while the results obtained by both methods 

 are not to be compared. Sods separate in dry weather, leaving 

 crevices about which the grass dies out; then the grasses that 

 compose a pasture or roadside sod (generally the kind used for 

 "sodding" lawns) are not at all the best sorts for forming a 

 perfect lawn, and will not give a smooth, elegant surface. 



Regarding Kentucky Blue Grass, so widely advertised as an 

 ideal lawn grass, it has merits and demerits. Where Blue 

 Grass thrives it eventually makes a good lawn, but it is slow 

 to thicken up, requiring not less than two years to form a good 

 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 and on the limestone soils of Kentucky, etc., 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 intelli- 

 gently 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 a few 



The " Henderson " Lawn Grass Seed produces a perfect 

 and enduring lawn of luxuriant richness, with closely inter- 

 woven, firm, deep and elastic turf, and it is often ready for 

 cutting in four weeks from time of sowing. This celebrated 

 Lawn Grass is composed of a thoroughly balanced combination 

 of various native and foreign fine-leaved, deep-rooting grasses 

 of interweaving habit, that flourish under our varied conditions, 

 soils and climates, growing during different seasons of the year, 

 so that a deep green, smooth, and velvety sward, free from 

 clumps, is maintained from snow to snow, year after year, and 

 without burning brown in summer, its constant luxuriance 

 rivaling the famous lawns of Old England. 



The Beautiful Lawns at the Pan-American Exposition, 

 Buffalo, also at the World's Fair in Chicago and the Lewis and 

 Clark Exposition in Portland, Oregon, were produced in less 

 than six weeks' time with The "Henderson"Lawn GrassSeed, 

 which was awarded the highest medal at these Expositions; 

 but what we prize more than gold medals are the hundreds of 

 letters of praise we have on file from the users of The "Hender- 

 son" Lawn Grass Seed in almost every State in the Union. 



The " Henderson " Lawn Grass Seed is, relatively speaking, 

 the cheapest seed offered, because, while other lawn grass 

 mixtures on the market will not average over 14 lbs. to the 

 bushel, this, being freed from chaff, weighs 20 lbs. per measured 

 bushel. It is also the Purest, Cleanest and Heaviest lawn 

 grass seed ever offered and it is absolutely free from 

 weed seeds. 



Aveeks' time 



We have made the formation and renovation of lawns a study for years, and thousands of the finest lawns and grass plots in America 



were obtained by following our instructions and using THE "HENDERSON" LAWN GRASS SEED. 

 ===== Full Directions for Making new Lawns and Renovating old ones enclosed in every Bag and Package. ^^=^^^^ 



PRICEopt^'HENDERSON LAWN GRASS SEED. 



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2 Bushels 



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'DELIVERED FREE IN THE U. S 



(By Mail, Express or Freight, at our option) 



in large and small quantities, for 



either the pretentious lawn or 



the modest door-yard plot. 



I5c. per pint, 25c. per quart, 

 85c. for 4 qts., $1.50 per peck, 

 $5.00 per bushel of 20 lbs. 



The quantity required for new lawns 

 is 5 bushels per acre. 



For a plot 15x20, or 300 square feet, 

 use 1 quart. 



For renovating old lawns, use one- 

 fourth to one-half of above quantities. 



FULL INSTRUCTIONS JN EVERY BAG. ' <*<>**■■ 



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