Burpee’s Famous Lawn 
Cirass 
The best time to start your lawn, or to repair it, is during the cool weather of early spring, for that is when grass grows 
most successfully and gets its strength to withstand the hot, dry weather that comes later. Why not plan now to have 
the luxurious lawn that will add so much to the beauty of your home? All you need is a rake, a roller, perhaps some tpp 
soil, and good seed. Wherever your lawn looks bare or ragged, loosen the soil with a steel rake. Fill in holes with garden 
soil, rake smooth. Then reseed, rake the seed in very lightly, and roll. Water with a fine spray. You will be wonderfully 
repaid for very little labor and expense. 
A view of the Formal Gardens on Burpee’s Fordhook Farms. Note the smooth, velvety Lawn grown from 
Burpee's Seeds 
The Beauty of a Smooth, Green, Velvety Lawn 
Will Be Yours If You Sow 
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Burpee’s Fordliook Finest 
Lawn Grass Seed 
The Best All-Purpose Lawn Grass Seed 
A wonderful mixture that is the result of years of experimenting. It is especially prepared by Burpee 
from the highest quality seeds that can be produced. Burpee’s Fordhook Finest makes a smooth, 
green, velvety lawn with a thick bottom, free from common grasses which are inclined to produce 
clumps or knots. Only the very finest varieties of the most suitable grasses for making an even, 
thick mass of grass are used in this mixture. The various grasses composing this well-balanced blend 
are fine-bladed and deep rooting, sure to produce the best results under average conditions of soil 
and climate met with in America. It is all plump, heavy seed, free from chaff or weed seeds. Fordhook 
Finest weighs 26 pounds per measured bushel. Sow one pound for a plot 10 by 20 feet (200 square 
feet), 100 to 150 pounds of seed are required to sow one acre. A small quantity of white clover is in¬ 
cluded to help thicken the bottom of the sod. 
Postpaid: Lb. 60£; 2 lbs. $1.10; 5 lbs. $2.50; 10 lbs. $4.50 
__ Not Prepaid: 25 lbs. 39-Qo; 50 lbs. 3i7-75; 100 lbs. 3 35-QQ; 250 lbs. 382 . 50 ; 500 lbs. 3i5o.oo. 
W. Atlee Burpee Co., Seed Growers, Philadelphia, Pa. 
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