SEEDS OF 
Special Grasses 
adapted for lawns 
IN THE SOUTH... 
BERMUDA 2 
GRASS SEED. 
For Lawn Formation in the Semi-Tropics. 
BERMUDA GRASS is the most jmportant and valuable grass for lawns in 
the extreme South. A well kept lawn of this grass is a refre z 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, m a good sand binder and bank holder. It revels in the heat 
1. direct the remaining green through the long tropical 
sub-tropical su ers, when any other type of grass adapted for lawns w 
b out. Although Bermuda Grass is especially adapted for lawn formati 
in the extreme South, and may be grown as far north as Richmond, Va., and 
St. Louis, without being w 
ill be its season of green, ¢ 
sr killed, yet the further north it is 1 the 
shorter 1 s the foliage turns brown after the first 
and does not “‘ green out” until er frosts cease in spring For this reason 
in sections subject to frosts an associate winter grass, usually Enzlish Ry« 
Grass, is sown in the fall over the Bermuda Grass lawn after th 
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 Ib. 
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By 
THE BERMUDA GRASS LAWN AND GOLF 
COURSE AT PALM BEACH. 
AA Green Lawn the year 
round in Georgia produced 
with Bermuda Grass Seed 
and English Rye Grass Seed. 
MEssrs. P. HENDERSON & Co.: 
Gentlemen: I enclose you the details of my 
plan in maintaining a green lawn the year 
round tn this climate, where ordinary grasser 
burn out in summer. The experiment has 
been a success 1 every way, and you may 
with confidence recommend thts plan to your 
Southern customers. 
Area } acre, sowed the Bermuda Grass 
Seed Jan. 31st. Our sotl ts very light with 
clay subsoil. I put tt tn good condition, 
plowing in 200 lbs. Cotton Seed Meal 
on the 1} 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 4 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 1 the proportion of 50 ibs. 
per acre-and rolled the ground. The latter grass seed comes up in eight days, 
in six weeks it 1s a mass 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 the ground here through the winter. 
RicHARD 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. 20c. per lb. $16.00 per 100 lbs., per standard bushel of 14 lbs., $2.40. 
