San Diego, California 
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LAWN CULTURE 
A beautiful and well-kept lawn adds more to the appear¬ 
ance and value of a home than any other outside attraction 
and in San Diego it takes very little work to keep it looking 
well all seasons of the year. 
The following simple rules will assist you very much in 
keeping up an old one. 
Soil Preparation. If you are putting in a new lawn in 
the dry season of the year, soak the ground thoroughly with 
water twenty-four to forty-eight hours before you attempt to 
spade it up. When spading it be sure to break up all 
lumps to insure it settling evenly. After spading rake it 
over thoroughly, being sure to pulxerize all surface lumps, 
and if possible roll it with a good garden roller. Be careful 
to have lawn slope in conformity with lot and sidewalk to 
insure good drainage. When ground is well prepared and 
made smooth as possible, sow your seed, giving it good, 
even distribution, at the rate of about one pound to one 
hundred and fifty feet. The average ratio of mixing lawn 
seed in this section is one pound of White Clover to three or 
four pounds of Kentucky Blue Grass. 
After sowing seed rake in iightly and cover with mill 
shavings to depth of half an inch. When well screened and 
old stable manure is obtainable, shavings are not necessary. 
This top dressing is very essential in the starting of a lawn, 
as it prevents the ground surface from drying out too rap¬ 
idly in the summer months, and protects the young grass in 
the cooler weather, and helps to prevent washing. 
In wetting down a new lawn care should be taken not to 
let the water run in streams as it will wash-^ut the seed. 
Buy a Ross sprinkler and soak it good twice a day until 
sod is well started. Any good hand sprinkler that will 
make a soft misty spray will be satisfactory. After the grass 
of your new lawn is up, do not attempt to weed it until it 
has been cut a few times, as many of the weeds will die 
out by cutting and your grass seed will have a chance to 
form a sod, which will not be injured by weeding later on. 
All the grass seed we purchase is as free from weed seed 
as it is possible to buy, and we have it all tested in govern¬ 
ment laboratories, but all soils are impregnated with weed 
seed, so do not blame your lawn seed for the weeds that 
come in a new lawn. 
Fertilization. If your new lawn does not grow fast enough 
and your soil is impoverished, we recommend the use of 
Lawn Pep, which can be used at the time of making your 
lawn or after it is well started. 
Lawn Pep is a quick action preparation made in South¬ 
ern California for conditions that exist here, and we do 
not hesitate in recommending it for lawn and garden pur¬ 
poses. 
OLD LAWNS 
Every few years in Southern California, lawns are liable 
to become root bound and infested with Bermuda Grass 
(Devil Grass) giving them a dry or burnt appearance. 
While we select our grass seeds from sections where there 
is no Bermuda Grass, yet this pest is more or less present 
in all of California, and it can get into a lawn by a great 
many different ways. 
When a lawn has become root bound or infested with 
Bermuda Grass the best treatment is to give it a thorough 
overhauling with a "Lawn Cultivator” cutting all the grass 
runners loose and opening up the soil to allow air, water 
and light to enter. After your lawn is thoroughly worked 
over and trimmed down with your mower, sow the bare 
spots with grass seed, white clover preferably, rake in lightly 
and apply a good commercial fertilizer and keep thor¬ 
oughly wet until seed starts. If lawn is very bare a top 
dressing of mill shavings will assist and it can be swept off 
lawn when grass is well up. We recommend our commer¬ 
cial fertilizer over barnyard manure, as it is free from weeds 
and will dissolve quickly going to the roots of the plants. 
It is necessary for all plants to have food sufficient to per¬ 
fect growth. 
CAUTION! DO NOT apply Commercial Fertilizer too 
heavily at any time, but be sure to follow directions. Smaller 
and more frequent applications will bring results. 
HARRIS’ QUALITY LAWN GRASS SEEDS 
KENTUCKY BLUE GRASS SEED (Poa Pratensis). Grown 
from specially selected strains in carefully selected fields, 
and thoroughly recleaned to remove chaff, impurities and 
weed seeds. This seed will give the highest satisfaction. 
Plant at the rate of 1 lb. to 150 sq. ft. Price per pound, 
50s; 10 lbs., $4.50 postpaid. 
WHITE CLOVER (Trifolium Repens). We import our 
Premium Grade of White Clover Seed from European 
sources, where the finest grades of White Clover Seed are 
grown—and then thoroughly reclean the seed to make 
doubly sure that it is of the highest quality. Plant at the 
rate of 1 lb. to 200 sq. ft. Price per pound, 75c; 10 lbs., 
$7.00 postpaid. 
BENT GRASS SEEDS (For Fine Lawns and Golf Greens). 
Bent Grass Seeds for lawn purposes have been coming 
into some popularity during the last few years, especially for 
larger lawns and estates, where much care and attention is 
given to the lawn. Bent Grass produces a very fine, beauti¬ 
ful, and velvety lawn, but must be cut at least twice a week, 
as otherwise they will produce a rank and lumpy growth. 
Bent Grass Lawns also should be top-dressed every four 
months. Mow the lawn closely, mix equal parts of good, 
rich soil and Sheep Manure and rake into the grass with 
the back of a rake, covering the grass not over one-quarter 
inch. Bent Grass seed should be sown at the rate of about 
four pounds to every thousand square feet. We have found 
the following variety of Bent Grass to be the best in this 
section. 
SEASIDE BENT GRASS (Agrostis Maritima). Also often 
called Coos County Bent because most of the seed is 
grown in Coos County, Oregon. This is a rare creeping 
bent, and makes a very smooth, uniform lawn. Extreme 
care must be taken in purchasing this seed, as there are 
so many swamp grasses and other weed seeds in the dis¬ 
trict where the seed is grown. Our stock of Seaside Bent 
is carefully recleaned, and is extremely pure and free 
from weeds. Lb., $2.00; 10 lbs., $19.00. Postpaid. 
HARRIS’ SPECIAL LAWN MIXTURE— 
This is a mixture of White Clover, Kentucky Bluegrass, 
and Paceys Rye Grass particularly good for a quick lawn in 
the back yard where it will get considerable rough usage and 
not a great deal of care. Lb., 45c; 10 lbs., $4.00 postpaid. 
CHEWING FESCUE (Festuca Specias). Used extensively 
on putting greens, fairways and tees on golf courses, and 
does well on most any kind of soil. It also produces a 
stiff, upright plant. Price per pound, 75c; 10 lbs., $6.00 
postpaid. 
BERMUDA GRASS (Cynodon Dactylon). A broad leaved 
creeping grass, used for golf course fairways, polo and 
athletic fields. Will stand a great deal of hard usage. 
Price per pound, 50c; 10 lbs., $4.50 postpaid. 
HARRIS’ SHADY LAWN MIXTURE— 
A grand grass for sowing under trees, where no other grass 
will succeed. It makes a beautiful velvety lawn; grows much 
finer in leaf than Bluegrass and will stand in quite dense 
shade. 1 lb., 60c postpaid. 10 lbs., $5.50. 
PACEY’S RYE GRASS— 
A fine grass for quick lawn; should be sown very thick 
and will produce a good lawn, withstanding drought much 
better than Kentucky Blue grass and making sod more 
quickly, but is a little more coarse in its growth. Lb., 40c; 
10 lbs., $3.50, postpaid. Write us for quantity price on 
Paceys Rye Grass. 
RED TOP (Agrostis Alba) — 
A fine bladed grass that is often used in mixture with 
Kentucky Blue Grass for putting greens and tees on golf 
courses. It also makes an excellent lawn grass. Price per 
lb., 50c; 10 lbs., $4.50 postpaid. 
