THE BEAUTIFUL LAWNS 

 IN AMERICA 



ARE MADE IN 4 TO 6 WEEKS' TIME WITH 



The "Henderson" Lawn Grass Seed. 



IT IS USED AND PRAISED BY THOUSANDS FROM MAINE TO CALIFORNIA. 



PRODUCING A PERFECT AND PERMANENT SWARD OF LUXURIANT RICHNESS; AND IS EQUALLY VALUABLE 



FOR RENOVATING IMPERFECT AND WORN-OUT LAWNS. 



THERE is nothing more attractive 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, green, 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 in dry weather leave 

 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. 



The "Henderson" Lawn Grass Seed produces a perfect 

 and enduring lawn of verdant richness, a firm, deep and elastic 

 turf, and is often ready for mowing in four weeks from sow- 

 ing. This celebrated Lawn Grass seed is a balanced blend 

 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. 



The "Henderson" Lawn Grass Seed is, relatively, the cheap- 

 est seed offered, because, being freed from chaff, it weighs 20 

 lbs. per measured bushel, while other lawn grass mixtures aver- 

 age only 14 lbs. to the bushel. It is also the Purest and 

 Cleanest lawn grass seed, being absolutely free from weed 

 seeds. 



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 proportion 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 

 weeks' 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. 



PRICEo^HENDERSON LAWN GRASS SEED 



DELIVERED FREE IN THE U. S. 



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



15c. 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. 



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