This Year 
Make Your Place 
LOOK LIKE HOME 
By Fixing Up 
A GOOD LAWN. 
Brent’s Premium Lawn Grass Seed 
There is nothing more attractive around a home than a beautiful lawn. Nothing is such a constant source of 
pleasure and adds so to the value of the place at such a small cost. Without a lawn the flowers and plants about 
the horns lose much of their attractiveness. 
A lawn can be made by sodding, but much better and more satisfactorily by sowing the seed and at less ex- 
pense. Sodding is expensive and rarely satisfactory. Sod is frequently cut from the roadside or some out-of-the- 
way pasture. It is generally poor in quality and full of weeds and unless very carefully laid will make an uneven 
surface and an unattractive lawn. To sow the seed is cheaper and better. 
BRENT’S PREMIUM LAWN GRASS.— 
An unrivaled mixture of the purest and 
cleanest seed. It contains only the high- 
est grade of grasses suitable for the pur- 
pose of making a beautiful, durable, last- 
ing lawn. Brent’s Premium Lawn Grass 
Seed germinates quickly, roots deeply; this 
enables it to readily withstand the intense 
heat of summer and the cold in winter, 
showing a beautiful, rich green during the 
greater part of the year. It contains no 
annual grasses for a quick show, to the detriment of a 
permanent lawn, but has only those which are lasting 
and hardy. When a lawn is once established from our 
seed it lasts for years. From 6 to 8 weeks’ time is all 
that is required to form a close, thick turf of rich, vel- 
vety green. For a perfect and enduring lawn of closely 
interwoven, firm, elastic turf, which will flourish under 
varied conditions of soil and climate and show a lux 
uriant, rich green growth throughout the year, plant 
Brent’s Premium Lawn Grass Seed. 
QUANTITIES TO USE.— One lb. for 400 square feet; 
5 lbs. for 2,000 square feet; 25 lbs. for 10,890 square 
feet (J4 acre); 50 lbs. for 21,780 square feet ( T /a acre); 
100 lbs. for 1 acre'. 
For renovating old lawns, use about one-half quantity 
given in the above table. 
HOW TO MAKE A LAWN. -The preparation of the 
soil is very important in making a good lawn. As early 
as possible in the Spring it should be thoroughly dug or 
ploughed to the depth of 10 or 12 inches and properly 
graded to the desired level. Remove all stones, sticks, 
sods, etc., harrow or rake it fine and roll it firm. It is 
impossible to get the soil too fine to receive the seed. If 
the soil is poor, wood ashes, bone meal or pulverized 
sheep manure should be added after digging it up. Well 
rotted stable manure is also good, but it often contains 
weed seeds. 
Sow the best seed obtainable — it is always cheapest 
in the end. It is best to sow seed liberally, not only so 
as to produce a lawn quickly, but because the best lawn 
seed produces fine-leaved grasses which should take en- 
tire possession of the ground at once, thus choking out 
and preventing the development of any weed seed, which 
are apt to be in all- soils. Sow seed by hand; distribute 
it evenly, going both ways across the plot. After sow- 
ing, cover the seed by raking lightly, then roll. When 
the grass has become well rooted, use lawn mower. Keep 
the mower sharp, as if dull it will pull, and injure the 
grass, besides causing the lawn to have an uneven ap- 
pearance. Never allow the grass to become so high that 
the mower will take off the first joint, as this is an in- 
jury. Mow as often as necessary, in growing weather 
at least once a week. Let the short clippings remain on 
the lawn, as they wither and dry and form a protection 
to the roots. When the clippings are long, they should 
be raked off. for besides being unsightly, they are also 
injurious. When dry and hot, avoid cutting too close. 
TO GRASS A TERRACE.— Take for each square rod 
a pound of lawn grass seed and mix it with about six 
cubic feet of good dry garden loam. Place it in a tub 
and add liquid manure, diluted with about two-thirds 
water until the mixture has the consistency of mortar. 
Make the slope even and smooth, water it well, then 
apply a thin, even coat of mixture. 
FOR SHADED PLACES. — On nearly all lawns there 
are shaded, bare and unsightly spots on which the own 
ers have difficulty in getting a stand of grass. For such 
places this mixture is adapted. It is composed of grasses 
which naturally grow in shaded places. They are the 
finest and most costly of all grasses. If the soil is 
covered with moss, or seems “sour” and out of condi 
tion, rake off the surface and apply slaked lime at the 
rate of one bushel to 1,000 square feet. This will 
sweeten the soil. Then dig and prepare the lawn as di- 
rected above. 
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