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At the White City we made a public demonstration of one oi the systems of how CARTERS 
TESTED SEEDS are tested. 
It is well known that we test our Seeds before distributing them. Afterwards the Seeds are grown at one 
of our Trial Grounds, at the same time as our Customers grow them, to full maturity, so that we may 
assure ourselves of the quality and trueness of each variety. By examining our trials from time to time we 
know exactly how the produce of our Seeds should appear in the gardens of our Customers all over the 
World, making allowances for the various climates, and by the aid of our comparative tests (we try all British 
and Continental Seeds of repute) we can assure ourselves that our Customers are growing “ the best arid only 
the best.” 
In the above Miniature Trial Ground we are shoxvlng one of our methods, and visitors to the White 
City had the unixpie opportunity of examining over 200 varieties of Annual Flowers and over lOO different 
varieties of Grasses and Clovers as used for Lawns, Butting Greens, and Agricultural purposes. 
As a border to each garden we sowed two plots three feet in diameter of every grass that is known, com- 
mencing with the very finest bladed varieties which are used in mixtures for Putting Greens and other games and 
Lawns; we then go to the medium-bladed varieties, suitable in their right proportion for Lawns and Permanent 
Pasture, followed by the broader-bladed varieties found in Agricultural Pasturage, until at last we come to the 
very broad and harsh reed-grasses, which are useful for Golfing Hazards or for binding loose sand, the sides of 
streams, or cover for birds. 
To enable visitors to determine the value of each grass for its particular use, we cultivated two plots of 
each variety. One was cut ami kept short, as a Lawn should be, the other was allowed to grow and form its 
full herbage and eventually to flower, so that those who were interested in Grasses from a sporting or from an 
agricultural point of view might determine the value of each variety when cut, and also the height each 
species will attain when allowed to grow without being cut ; this is a very important point, as an agriculturist 
expects as large a yield as possible of nutritious grasses, while a golfer desires a dwarf compact turf that does 
not re<)uire much cutting, the nutritious value being of no importance to him. 
^ 97 , High Holborn, London.— 1910. 
