Watson’s Seed Store, Juniper and Locust Streets, Philadelphia. 7 
Photograph of Lawn on the Estate of Mrs. Walter B. Stephenson, Haverford, Pa , :8 months from seed. 
Sown with Watson’s Lawn Grass, Spring ot ic,oo. Photogiaphed Uetober, 1501. 
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 
grass seeds in an extensive way, and do not merely 
make them a side line like many nouscs. 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 ena- 
bled 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 wnlle 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? Why not use just one kind, 
like Kentucky Blue Grass or Rod 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. An- 
other reason for having eight or ten different spe- 
cies in the Lawn Grass is because it gives a closer 
sod. Charles L. Flint, our ablest American author- 
ity on grasses, demonstrated beyond all cavil that a 
square foot of sod with one species of grass has 
always fewer plants than the same area with a num- 
ber 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 un- 
less 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 t.he ideas ex- 
pressed above, and is a general purpose mixture 
calculated for the largest number of soils and situa- 
tions. It .will give a close green turf during the 
longest possible season. Some grasses endure for 
only 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, perennial, 
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 arc 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 tlies° 
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 bad elsewhere, while the seeds can be de- 
pended on to be of the highest grade and of strong 
vitality. 
