For Better Turf 
LAWN SEED PLANTING INSTRUCTI 
ONS 
(Provided you use permanent sorts which are high priced without timothy). If much 
timothy is mixed in cheaper lawn grass, replanting should be done every year. 
GRADE SOIL — PERFORATE OR SPADE SOIL 5 to 8 INCHES — FERTILIZE 
SOIL — RAKE SOIL SMOOTH — BROADCAST (sow) GRASS SEED THICKLY — 
RAKE SEED IN — ROLL OR POUND — WATER LIGHTLY—RAIN EFFECT 
SPRINKLER — SEEDING TIME: APRIL TO NOVEMBER. 
Fall seeding is preferable—gives the lawn a weedless start for the spring. 
Don’t cut young grass too close. 
Roll every week. 
Keep soil continually aereated—with sand—TOP DRESSING and frequent hard iron 
raking or spiking. 
THE EARTH MUST BREATHE—otherwise you will have a cement patch instead 
of a soft carpet. 
Top dress every two months with top soil, humus or peat moss a little sand and fertilizer, 
and a few handsful of lawn seed. About a pailful of each all mixed together to be sprinkled 
and raked evenly all over the lawn. 
After you have a lawn—soak it—don’t sprinkle it lightly. SUNSHINE may burn a 
lawn—watering in the shade will show results. Water thoroughly every few days—not a 
CENTRAL PARK 
LAWN CRASS SEED 
is not the 
CHEAPEST IN PRICE, THE BEST NEVER IS! 
few minutes every evening. Remember, wholesale dealers pay as high as SI.00 a pound for 
certain Bent and imported Grasses for turf purposes, therefore the higher the price, the 
better your lawn. 
FERTILIZER RATES OF APPLICATION, 
per 1000 sq. feet recommended by best authorities. 
5 lbs. (10x100) or (20x50) or (30x33) sq. feet. 
18 lbs.encourages weeds and clover. 
16 lbs. organic high in nitrogen. 
GRASS SEED 
BONE MEAL 
COTTON SEED 
MEAL 
SHEEP MANURE 
LIME 
NITRATE OF 
SODA 
SULPHATE OF 
AMMONIA 
PEAT MOSS 
HUMUS 
24 lbs. encourages weeds and clover. 
40 lbs. for clay Boil. Not a fertilizer. 
8 lbs. encourages weeds and clover. 
6 lbs. discourages weeds and while clover, 
and Red Top. 
Both retain moisture. 
Copyright by Fred S. Radway, N. Y. C. 
Encourages bent grasses 
FRED RADWAY SAYS!: 
This is the besinning of the end—of 
"The Sawdust Trail” 
"Chaff—sand and sawdust versus 
Highgrade tested but inexpensive 
lawn seed” 
"Quality will survive the pain suffered by 
the Pocketbook” 
FIRST CLASS 
Permit No. 1648 
(Sec. 510, P. L. 6? R.) 
New York, N. Y. 
BUSINESS REPLY CARD 
NO POSTAGE STAMP NECESSARY IF MAILED IN THE UNITED STATES 
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INCORPORATED 
115 BROAD STREET 
NEW YORK, N. Y. 
WEDOOURPAHT 
NON-WARRANTY. We give no warranty, 
express or implied, as to description, quality, 
productiveness or any other matter of any seeds, 
bulbs, or plants we send out, and will not be res¬ 
ponsible for the crop. As bearing on the above, 
the following remarks, taken from a recent Bulletin 
of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, are in¬ 
teresting: ’’Without attempting to discuss the 
arguments for the seedsman’s disclaimer pro and 
con, the fact remains that reputable seedsmen 
siaud back of their seeds and do not knowingly and 
willfully sell seeds that are unfit for planting pur¬ 
poses.” 
