Carters Tested Grass Seed 
Guaranteed for Purity and Germination 
Carters Wheel of Grasses— Testing Various Varieties of Grass for Lawns, Putting Greens, etc, 
Wc stock the following separate varieties and make up special mixtures to order . 
Per lb. 
Creeping Bent — Agrostis stolonifera . . 
Rhode Island Bent — Agrostis canina . . . 
Red Top, recleaned, fancy — Agrostis 
vulgaris 
Crested Dogstail — Cynosurus Cristatus . 
Orchard Grass — Dactyl’s Glomerato . . 
Fine Leaved Sheep’s Fescue — Festuca 
Ovina tenuifolia 
Sheep’s Fescue — Festuca Ovina 
Hard Fescue — Festuca duriuscula .... 
Red Fescue — Festuca rubra 
Timothy— Herd’s Grass — Recleaned . . . 
New Zealand Chewings Fescue — Festuca 
Chewings 
Meadow Fescue — Festuca pratensis . . . 
Canada Blue Grass — Poa Compressa 
.60 
.48 
.50 
.48 
.48 
.40 
.30 
.30 
.30 
.15 
.30 
.30 
.25 
Various Leaved Fescue — Festuca heter- 
phylia 
Kentucky Blue Grass — Poa Pratensis 
Rough Stalked Meadow Grass — Poa trivi- 
alis 
Wood Meadow Grass — Poa Nemoralis 
Yarrow — Archillea millefolium 
English Rye Grass — Lolium perenne . 
Medicago luplina — Yellow Trefoil 
Suckling Clover 
White Clover — Trefolium Repens . . . . 
Alfalfa or Lucerne — Recleaned 
Alsike Clover — Trifolium Hybridum . . . 
Red Clover —Trifolium Pratense ...... 
Crimson Clover — Trifolium Incarnatum 
Mixed Poas — including large percentage 
Poa Annua 
Per lb. 
.35 
.25 
.50 
.42 
2.00 
.10 
.15 
.35 
.50 
.30 
.32 
.30 
.20 
.80 
Prices on large quantities sent on application 
Hints When Ordering Grass Seed 
iS "That is the nature of the soil: heavy, medium, or light? Purpose for which the lawn is required. , 
Is the seed required for a new lawn? If so, send a sample of soil. 
Is the seed required for renovating an old lawn? If so, send a sample of existing turf. 
Doyou intend to manurethe ground? If so, can you procure any well-rotted farm or stable manure? 
Is the ground well drained? Is water laid on? Quality of seed required. , 
Sowing Grass Seed ( Quantity of Seed Required ) 
In sowing a new lawn use six to eight bushels or 200 pounds per acre. Figure a small lawn at the rate of 1 ounce per 
t0 ""For^enovati^ng^u^^e^about^one ha?f ^h^alxive quantity would be required, according to the state of the existing 
turf for an area of 20 yards square, or 400 square yards. 
Golf fair greens should be sown at the rate of from 6 to 1- bushels per acre. 
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