/ONGSj "Safety-First" Purest Lawn Grass Seed 
It is safest and cheapest to buy the very purest and best White Clover and Blue Grass 
seed for your lawn, because you avoid seeding: your lawn with the noxious weeds found In 
cheap grrass seeds, and gret so much higrher grermination that a pound of the best will cover as 
much as two pounds of the cheap, chaffy, low germinating seed. 
Any of these commercial fertilizers are grood: Vigoro, Sacco, Bartco, Loma. Use 3 or 4 
pounds to 100 square feet. Your local seed or feed store can supply, or get, these fertilizers. 
Purest White Clover 
Clean seed, of bright golden color and strong 
vitality, “rarin’ to go.” Sure fine. Lb. 70c; 
2 lbs. $1.30, prepaid. Five lbs.: 2nd zone $3.00; 
3rd zone $3.05; 4th zone $3.15, prepaid. Ten 
lbs.: 2nd zone $5.70; 3rd zone $5.80; 4th zone 
$6.00, prepaid. Write for prices on larger lots, 
or beyond 4th zone. 
Best Kentucky Blue Grass 
Very heavy and clean. Lb. 50c; 2 lbs. 90c, 
prepaid. Five lbs.: 2nd zone $2.00; 3rd zone 
$2.05; 4th zone $2.15; 5th zone $2.25, prepaid. 
Ten lbs.: 2nd zone $3.70; 3rd zone $3.80; 4th 
zone $4.00; 5th zone $4.20, prepaid. Write for 
prices on larger lots and beyond 5th zone. 
Safety-First Mixed Seed 
About one part white clover to three parts 
best blue grass. Lb. 65c; 2 lbs. $1.20, prepaid. 
Five lbs.: 2nd zone $2.60; 3rd zone $2.65; 4th 
zone $2.75; 5th zone $3.85, prepaid. Ten lbs.: 
2nd zone $5.00; 3rd zone $5.10; 4th zone $5.40; 
5th zone $5.60, prepaid. Sow about pound to 
300 square feet. Thicker still better. 
For the Lawn's Sake! 
Lawns may be started or old ones renewed 
or renovated any time from earliest spring to 
October. 
New lawns should be thoroughly worked, 
leveled and allowed to settle, then leveled 
again. The more care before sowing the seed 
the better the results. Seed will wash to the 
low spots and make your lawn spotted. Some 
complain that the seed was “no good,” as it 
came up only in spots. Sow about one part 
clover to three parts blue grass. Use not less 
than pound to 300 square feet. 
Sow part the seed one way and then some 
more crosswise, so as to avoid streaks. Rake 
well before and after sowing. Water gently 
so often that soil never dries out until lawn 
is green. Clover comes quickly. Blue grass 
comes slowly but hangs on like grim death 
after gets a foothold. Clover draws nitrogen 
from the air and enriches the ground for itself 
and the blue grass. 
Old lawns should be re-seeded and fertilized 
from time to time. Use only the purest seed. 
Never be afraid of sowing too much seed, nor 
too often. Dandelion and other weed seeds are 
blown or carried on to the lawn. Give the 
lawn a break by sowing good pure grass seed 
several times a season. 
ASTORIA CREEPING BENT GRASS SEED. For making new lawns or renewing old. 
there are half a dozen or more varieties of Bent grasses. Astoria heads the list. Astoria 
starts quickly and goes farther. It creeps on top and under the ground. Seed very fine. 
Use pound for 300 to 500 square feet. Astoria Bent in sealed bags: y 2 lb. 65c; lb. $1.10; 
2 lbs. for $2.15; 3 lbs. for $3.20; 5 lbs. for $5.25; 10 lbs. for $9.95. Prepaid. 
SHADY NOOK LAWN GRASS. 
lbs. $1.50; 5 lbs. $2.40, prepaid. 
Special mixture for shady places. Lb. 60c; 2 lbs. $1.10; 3 
Gardening Is Easy—It's Fun! 
I think many garden talks are too serious. 
We make it seem too hard to succeed. We 
may scare some aspiring gardeners out of the 
garden altogether. 
While it seems no end to things that should 
be learned or practiced in order to get the 
best results, yet it’s amazing to note the re¬ 
sults attained by inexperienced gardeners, 
even children. It’s another case of “Ain’t 
Nature Wonderful?” 
Nature comes along and patches up a lot of 
our mistakes. To be sure, the more we learn 
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about Nature’s ways and methods, and co¬ 
operate with her, the better But let’s shelve 
the idea that there is any great mystery about 
gardening. It isn’t hard. It’s easy. It’s fun, 
when you catch the gardening spirit. 
As you will notice, my talks are more for 
the small gardener than for those operating on 
a large scale. Commercial growers are usually 
pretty well informed along these lines. But if 
any gardener, large or small, fails to find at 
least one helpful tip in my talks, just mention 
it to one of the ushers as you pass out and 
the money will be cheerfully refunded. 
