G. C. WATSON, PHILADELPHIA, TRADE LIST, SPRING, 1903. 
Photograph of Lawn o-i the Estate of Mrs. Walter B. Stephenson, Haverford, Pa., 18 months from seed. 
Sown with Watson's Lawn Grass, Spring of 1900. Photographed Otcober, 1901. 
OUR $2.10 LAWN GRASS 
We are often asked how it is that we can furnish 
a first class Lawn Grass at the low rate of $2.10 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 
gras? 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 heme 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 revolution- 
ized the old methods in grass seed selling over twenty 
years ago to the present day we have been pioneers 
and specialists in this department, having adopted and 
consistently practiced modern and up-to-date methods 
in our business while other houses were oblivious or 
indifferent 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 t 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 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 American authority on grasses, dem- 
onstrated beyond all cavil that a square foot of sod 
with one species of grass has always fewer plants than 
the same area with a number of different species. 
T his 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 on 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 turt 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, lennis 
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 that figures will be in 
all cases most reasonable and lower than can be had 
elsewhere, while the seeds can be depended on to be 
of the highest grade and of strong vitality. 
