G. C. WATSOV, PHTT/A DELPHI A, TRADE LIST, SPRING, 190? 
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Photograph of Lawn on the Estate of Mrs. IValter H . Stephen son , Haver ford , Pa., /S months /tout seed. 
So7vn 7 vith IVatson's Lawn Grass, Spring of 1900. Photographed October , 1901. 
OUR $2.10 LAWN GRASS. 
We are ofteu asked how it is that we can furnish a 
first-class Lawn Grass at the low rate of ?2.io per bushel 
when other seedsmen are selling their mixtures at 
$3.00, $4.00 and $5.00 per bushel. 
The explanation is simple enough. We handle 
grass seeds in an extensive way. and do not merely 
make them a side line like many houses. They are our 
chief specialty, and have been for the past twenty-five 
years. Then again, we keep in much closer touch with 
the best sources of supply both at home and abroad 
than others and are thus enabled to furnish grass seeds 
of better quality and at lower prices. It is merely a 
case of making special study and knowledge count 
in the better and lower-priced service which we render 
to our patrons. 
From the time that Faunce de Laune revolutionized 
the old methods in grass seed selling over twenty years 
ago to the present day we have been pioneers and spe- 
cialists in this department, having adopted and consis- 
tently practiced modern and up-to-date methods in our 
business while other houses were oblivious or indiffer- 
ent to the new order of things. This is one of the main 
reasons how we were able to forge to the front and stay 
there. 
As to our mixture for Lawns: We are frequently 
asked why a mixture? Why not use just one kind, like 
Kentucky Blue Grass or Red Top Grass? The answer 
is: — to make the best sod you want not only these two 
excellent kinds but half a dozen others, some of them 
because they start growth earlier in the spring, others 
because they continue later in the fall, thus giving a 
more permanent green and beautiful lawn during a 
much longer season. Another reason for having eight 
or ten different species in the Lawn Grass is because it 
gives a closer sod. Charles L. Flint, our ablest Ameri- 
can authority on grasses, demonstrated beyond all cavil 
th at a square foot of sod with only one species of grass- 
had always fewer plants than the same area with a 
number of different species. This demonstration was 
in harmony with a well-known natural law, but was 
not fully recognized until Flint’s time, and even to day 
many good gardeners are apt to ignore it unless their 
attention is called to it forcibly by the specialist. 
Our $2.10 Lawn Grass is compounded 011 the most 
approved plan in conformity with the ideas expressed 
above, and is a general purpose mixture calculated for 
the largest number of soils and situations. It will give 
a close green turf during the longest possible season. 
Some grasses endure only for one season, like timothy; 
others, like orchard grass, are rank and tufty in their 
habit of growth. All such varieties are excluded from 
our mixture and only those that are dwarf, hardy, per- 
ennial, and compact in growth are admitted. We offer 
our Lawn Grass to our patrons with every confidence 
and know that, under favorable conditions, it will give 
the very best results. Price $2.10 per bushel (standard 
weight, 14 pounds.) 
GOLF LINKS AND OTHER SPECIAL 
GRASSES. 
We are always pleased to place our knowledge and 
experience in grasses freely at the disposal of those 
who contemplate the laying out of Golf Links, Tennis 
Courts, or Cricket Grounds, and are prepared to make 
special formulas and quote close figures, according to 
the soil, location, climate and other necessities of the 
occasion. 
A special formula is often required also for 
SHADY LAWNS 
and this we can supply as occasion may require. 
Quotations are based on the items used in these 
special formulas, and cannot of course be stated here, 
but we can assure our patrons thai figures will be in all 
cases most reasonable and lower than can be had else- 
where, while the seeds can be depended on to be of the 
highest grade and of strong vitality. 
