HOUSE AND GARDEN 
June, 191 
sary to maintain a lawn after it is once 
established. Too much cannot be said in 
favor of securing pure seed, and, if possi¬ 
ble, specially selected seed. This is, of 
course, of considerable importance with 
light seeds like bluegrass, redtop and 
seeds of the bent grasses. In the case of 
bluegrass, select seed weighs about twenty- 
two pounds to the bushel, while the ordi¬ 
nary grade of bluegrass, although it may 
be called pure, averages about twelve 
pounds to the bushel. 
“It is better to use an excessive amount 
of seed and allow natural selection to elim¬ 
inate the weak specimens rather than to 
seed sparsely with the hope that the nat¬ 
ural habits of the plants will be sufficient 
to enable them to take possession of the 
entire area. 
“Bluegrass, bent grass and the fescues, 
if used in combination, should be sown at 
the rate of three to five bushels of seed to 
the acre. Bluegrass, if used alone, should 
not be used at a rate less than fifty pounds 
to the acre, while seventy pounds is better. 
White clover, if added to the collection of 
the above-named sorts, should be used at 
the rate of one peck to the acre. Upon 
sandy or gravelly lands and in spring seed¬ 
ing, white clover is an important factor, 
because it germinates quickly and covers 
the ground, affording protection and pre¬ 
senting an attractive appearance earlier 
than is possible by the use of other grasses. 
White clover, too, is able to re-establish 
itself very quickly after periods of severe 
drought, and until the bluegrass, redtop, 
bent grass and fescues become thoroughly 
established the white clover will usually 
be in the ascendancy. As the turf-form¬ 
ing habits of the other grasses become 
more marked, however, the white clover 
will gradually disappear and give place to 
the other more permanent grasses.” 
The Hundred Per Cent. Garden 
(Continued from page 459) 
Try to prevent the formation of a hard 
crust anywhere in the garden at any time; 
it is much easier and much more satisfac¬ 
tory to keep going over it and over it with¬ 
out any thought as to the number of times 
than to let the weeds get ahead of you or 
the ground get hard, when you will find 
that work that might otherwise have been 
done in ten or fifteen minutes will take an 
hour or two. 
All this work with the wheel-hoe will of 
course take care only of the ground be¬ 
tween the rows of vegetables; the soil be¬ 
tween the plants themselves will have to 
be broken up and the wheels removed 
therefrom by the fingers or a small hand 
weeder, and this work has for the most 
part to be done on the hands and knees. 
By following the above suggestions you 
can reduce this work to a minimum, but 
only if you are prompt with what there is 
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