LAWN GRASS MIXTURE. 
Emerald Green 
60 POUNDS SEED TO 
THE ACRE. 
(jrass iVlixture. 
For Parks, Croquet and Tennis Grounds, Cricket and 
Athletic Fields. 
HINTS ON LAWN MAKING. 
Much ol the success of Lawn making depends upon the preparation of the ground. 
The land must be well plowed or dug and harrowed or raked to Sc;cure thorough pulveriza- 
tion, and after being reduced to a perfectly even surface should be cleared of stumps, stones, 
roots and other impediments. The soil should then be made firm with a heavy roller and 
top-dressed with a good fertilizer, unless the land had received an application of seven to 
€ight tons of very short well-rotted stable manure before plowing. We will here remark 
that stable manure is the best of all fertilizers, but there being some difficulty in obtaining it 
and objections to its use on account of its offensive appearance and smell, we recommend in 
Landreth Lawn Fertilizer a good grade of concentrated fertilizer. Six to seven hundred 
pounds to the acre of such mixture should be applied. The fertilizer should be lightly 
harrowed in upon the seedbed, as it will be lost to the young plants if buried much beneath 
the surface. After the harrowing the ground should be severely rolled, that the earth and 
seed may be brought into close contact. Our Lawn Grass Mixture should be sown at the rate 
of sixtypounds to the acre and rolled down. Sowing in September and October will be found 
most advantageous in latitudes south of Philadelphia ; in more northerly locations Spring 
sowing is most successfully practiced, the work beiug done in April and May. 
Annual seeds, natural to the soil, are certain to spring up before the young grass becomes 
■established, and an inexperienced person is likely to conclude that the weeds spring from 
weed seed in the grass seed, but all soils contain weed seed, and upon tillage they are certain 
to vegetate. The weeds as they become large enough may be cut down or pulled up ; after 
the first year their growth will cease. Frequent rolling is advantageous in producing a good 
Lawn by solidifying the soil, harassing insects and other vermin, and improving the level of 
the surface. 
On all Lawns will regularly appear in greater or less numbers a lot of interlopers, such as 
Buttercups, Plantains, Dandelions, all from seeds natural to the soil. These uninvited 
f quests should always be dug out, otherwise subsequent labor will be increased one hundred 
bid by their seeding. Lawns may be advantageously dressed with stable manure in Decem- 
ber, the long strawy portions being removed in March. 
Lawn Grass of good quality should produce a fair mat of herbage in from seventj' to 
ninety days. 
Some people, after seeding a piece of land with Lawn Grass, expect to see a green mat in 
two or three weeks, but in this they are unreasonable, as the better varieties of grass are 
«low to produce effect, and when an effect is quickly developed it is at the expense of 
adaptability and permanency. For instance, a fine mat of green color can be had in two 
weeks from a heavy sowing of White Clover, something very effective and pleasing to the 
eye, but clover is not a grass and is not suitable for Lawns, failing to produce that velvet- 
like effect, the result of the growth of the erect leaves produced by the best grasses, which 
ihabit fits' them to quickly recover after mowing. 
This prescription consists of ico parts, divided into such proportion between those 
grasses which our observation has indicated as best for general Park effect, as respects color, 
density of herbage, vigor, quick recuperation after mowing, and permanency. The seeds 
used are all well cleaned, and we believe them to be pure and of full vitality, and all persons 
using them are certain to secure a stand, provided the land be properly prepared and the 
seed sown at the proper time and at the right depth, and provided there be sufficient rainfall 
to germinate the seed. We cannot be responsible for the errors of the inexperienced. A 
pound of seed will sow a space 35x35 feet, or say 1200 square feet. Sixty pounds will sow an 
acre, but we recommend seventy or eighty pounds. Price per pound, 25 cents. 
This prescription is also of tco parts, but differs from our Park Lawn Grass in the list of 
varieties, a proportion of such sorts being here added as to better stand the wear and tear of 
tramping consequent upon games of Tennis, Cricket, Lacrosse and Base Ball. 
A pound will sow a space 35x35 feet, or say 1200 square feet. Sixty pounds will sow an 
.acre, but we recommend sevent3^ or eighty pounds. Price per pound, 25 cents. 
Landreths' mixture of varieties produces a reliable stand under a dense shade of either 
pine and liard wood trees in positions where all other grasses may have failed. Sixty pounds 
should be sown to the acre— or, say one pound on a space 35x35 feet, or in proportion for 
other dimensions. Price per pound, 25 cents. 
Forty pounds to the acre. This prescription of 100 pounds, divided into practical propor- 
tions between such varieties of grasses as proved by experience to be the best adapted for 
light soils, both as respects amount of leafy product and permanence. Price per pound, 
2f cents. 
Forty pounds to the acre. This prescription consists of 100 parts of such grasses as 
•experience has indicated as productive in herbage and most durable on hea'vy soils. Prico 
sper pound, 25 cents. 
GRASS FOR SURFACE EFFECT. 
GRASS TO RESIST TRAMPING ON ATHLETIC GROUNDS. 
GRASS FOR SHADY PLACES. 
PASTURAGE MIXTURE FOR LIGHT SOILS. 
PASTURAGE MIXTURE FOR HEAVY SOILS. 
