A Good Lawn Is the Foundation of a Garden 
How to Make a Lawn 
N OTHING is more universally admired and sought for by people of good taste and discrimination than a well-made, well-kept 
lawn. It is a priceless possession and requires intelligent effort and care. The main thing is to start right. The materials 
and foundation determine the quality of a lawn as much as of a building of brick and mortar. Use well-cleaned grass seed, 
consisting of a proper mixture of grasses suited to the locality and the particular location. Good seed makes a better lawn 
than sod. When the ground has settled and has been rolled firm, sow the seed evenly and thickly, at the rate of 5 bushels or 100 to 
120 pounds to the acre. Choose a still day and make two sowings at right angles to each other, to insure even distribution. A light 
sifting of rich soil over the seed is beneficial, or it may be lightly scratched with a rake. Firm the surface afterward with a roller or 
by vigorous blows with the flat of the spade. If the sowing can be done shortly in advance of a hght rain it is very fortunate, but, at 
all events, a newly seeded lawn should not be permitted to become dried out until the grass is up and fairly well established. 
As soon as the new grass will engage the blades of the mower, cut it and keep it cut regularly. All lawns, even those that are well 
estabhshed, should be watered well in hot, dry weather. In order to maintain vigorous growth and to discourage weeds, old lawns 
should be reseeded hghtly every season. This can be done in either spring or fall, and should follow a hght raking. Two bushels, or 
40 pounds, to the acre are sufficient, and it should be rolled or patted into the soil. 
Be sure to sow grass seed in all holes where weeds have been dug. Should dead spots appear in the lawn, spade them up, working 
plenty of fertilizer into the soil, and sow seed at the rate of 1 pound for every 100 square feet, keeping the spots well rolled and watered. 
An annual application of Woodgro Cow-Manure or Woodgro Lawn and Garden Fertilizer should be given every spring, applying it 
at the rate of 1000 pounds to the acre. 
Seed may usually be sown in the latitude of Montclair from March 20 to June 20, and from August 15 to October 15, preferably 
in the early spring or early fall, to get the benefit of the rains. 
Woodgro Lawn Grass Seed 
ADVANTAGES OF SOWING MIXED GRASS SEEDS 
A well-balanced combination of grasses will give better results than 
a separate variety. Various grasses in mixture will help crowd out 
weeds. Often a separate variety of seed will not thrive on certain 
soil but where there is a combination of seeds, one or more varieties 
in the combination will surely thrive and our formulas are so well 
blended that they will give very satisfactory results. 
Woodgro Mixture for Shady Places 
There are always spots under trees and in the shadow of buildings 
where the sun-loving grasses will not grow. For places of this kind 
we have prepared a careful Mixture of those grasses which naturally 
thrive in the shade. This Mixture consists of the. highest grade of 
recleaned seeds, and should produce a good lawn in difficult shady 
places. Even shade-loving grasses will not grow under trees without 
being watered because the tree roots are very greedy and absorb the 
moisture from the surface quicklv. Weighs over 20 pounds to the 
bushel. Lb. 65 cts.; 2 lbs. $1.25; 5 lbs. $3; 10 lbs. $5.75; 20 lbs. $11; 
100 lbs. $52. 
Woodgro Choice Central Park Mixture 
In this Mixture the quantities of some of the more expensive 
grasses are reduced or left out. Produces a thick turf, well adapted 
to hard usage. Weighs over 20 pounds to the bushel. Lb. 45 cts.; 
2 lbs. 85 cts.; 5 lbs. $2; 10 lbs. $3.75; 20 lbs. $7; 100 lbs. $32. 
Woodgro “Special Bent“ Mixture 
We guarantee 30% Creeping Bent in this mixture 
This superb mixture of Bent and other superior grasses has been 
blended to meet the insistent demand for a lawn mixture which will 
produce a velvety turf equal to that of the putting-green. If sown 
in carefully prepared and properly fertilized ground, this mixture 
will positively produce a turf far finer than can be expected from a 
lawn grass mixture which does not contain such expensive creeping 
grasses. The major portion of the mixture consists of northern-grown 
Rhode Island Bent, virtually pure Bent. No Clover of any kind is 
allowed in this blend. A turf of surpassing texture and of a deep, 
rich green color may confidently be expected from the sowing of 
this superb blend of choice creeping 
grasses. Weighs over 25 pounds to the 
bushel. Illustrated on back cover. 
Lb. 80 cts.; 2 lbs. $1.50; 5 lbs. $3.50; 
10 lbs. $7; 25 
lbs. $16.25; 100 
lbs. $60. 
Grass Seed 
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THOMAS WOOD & SONS, Inc., Montclair, N. J 
