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House & Garden 
The Bride 
Before and After 
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Philadelphia, : ; Pa. 
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On Home 
Beautifying 
Sent Free 
Contains practical 
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**The Wood Finishing Authorities** 
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ERSKINE-DANFORTH CORPORATION 
2 West 47th Street New York 
First Door West of Fifth Avenue, 4th Floor 
Green Lawns and Grass Seed for Every State 
(Continued from page 43) 
The prospective lawn builder should 
analyze the characteristics of the 
common grasses adapted to his divi¬ 
sion and their function in any par¬ 
ticular lawn. He may then with a 
large degree of accuracy compose a 
simple and successful seed mixture. 
Making the Mixture 
Buy each kind of seed separately 
and mix them at home. Secure your 
seed from a reputable seed house. 
It pays to purchase recleaned seed of 
good quality. It is advisable to have 
each variety of seed tested for purity 
and germination at your State experi¬ 
ment station. They will warn you 
of any adulterants in the seed and 
the presence of impurities. 
It is also essential that all seed be 
of high viability. The germination 
report upon your sample will give yon 
sufficient information as to the ad¬ 
visability of using any particular lot 
of seed for planting. Never buy seed 
one year and store it over winter in a 
shed or in the basement. Such seed 
is apt to have a low germination and 
be worthless for planting. 
It must be the major portion of the 
mixture, as it should eventually take 
full possession. Your decision to use 
other grasses as supplementary ad¬ 
ditions must be guided by this. 
Grasses are used in combination for 
the following purposes: 
The Reason for AIixtures 
First, to act as a nurse crop for 
another variety. They may be used 
on a slope to prevent washing or sim¬ 
ply to cover the ground for the sake 
of appearance, and to keep out weeds 
while the principle variety is estab¬ 
lishing itself. The latter is especially 
true with slow growdng grasses such 
as Kentucky blue grass. This grass 
takes from one to three years to es¬ 
tablish itself and if it were not for 
the supplementary grasses it would be 
overrun by weeds before it were well 
started on the road to permanency. 
The second use of supplementary 
grasses is on a lawn wdiere a great 
deal of variation of soil and situation 
occurs. One species of grass may not 
grow^ equally well in all places. This 
is remedied to some extent by the 
sowing of several varieties in mixture 
so that every local bad spot will find 
some grass more or less adapted to it. 
The third use is to reduce the cost 
of planting. Some seed may be too 
expensive to sow in large quantities 
alone. The original variety eventu¬ 
ally crowds out the others as it be¬ 
comes established in the lawn. 
In the north, the well-known 
Kentucky hlue grass is the 
best for the majority of situor 
tions 
Bermuda pross is the standard 
sort used for successful lawns 
in the Southern States 
As a general rule use Kentucky 
blue grass in preference to others in 
the Northern division. This applies 
as well to Bermuda grass in the 
Southern group. Choose only one 
of the major grasses. This is to 
compose the largest percentage pos¬ 
sible in j'onr mixture. 
If the lawn does not readily fall 
into one of the distinct divisions of 
the table at the bottom of page 42, 
and is only partially shaded or is 
slightly acid, combine with the major 
seed other grasses suited to the spe¬ 
cific needs. Of course, if the lawn 
is almost entirely shaded, is largely 
sand, or tends strongly toward any 
well defined condition, the grass best 
adapted to such a case may be found 
in the table and this had best be used 
as the major part of the mixture. 
Two to four varieties are as many 
as are necessary in a mixture. Each 
variety should fulfill a distinct func¬ 
tion in the lawn or it should not be 
included. The amount of any mix¬ 
ture to sow per acre is varied some¬ 
what by the character of the land 
and the seed that is to be sown upon 
it, and the quality of the seed itself. 
The 1897 Yearbook of the United 
States Department of Agriculture 
gives the general rule, “Owing to 
the great variation in the weight per 
bushel of grass seeds of the same 
kind (due to the presence of more or 
less chaff), it is best to base the 
amount upon the weight rather than 
measure, and from 50 to 60 pounds 
of seed of fine quality is not too much 
to use upon an acre of ground, or 
\y 2 pounds to 100 square yards, poor 
land requiring more than fertile land.” 
Sowing the Seed 
Early spring is the best time to 
sow the seed. If the lawn soil has 
been brought in from other sources 
and if fresh manure has been used 
it will be of advantage to the owner 
to fallow the ground for a season or 
to grow some hoed crop upon it, such 
as corn or potatoes. This will give 
the large number of weed seeds in 
the soil an opportunity to germinate 
and this will greatly lessen the 
amount of labor that will have to be 
expended upon it later. 
The sowing should take place dur¬ 
ing cloudy weather just preceding a 
rain. If the day is at all windy it is 
best to postpone the sowing until 
some quiet day when a more even 
distribution can he secured. To in¬ 
sure even sowing it is well to go 
over the lawn again in a direction at 
right angles to the first sowing and 
(Continued on page 76) 
BIRD BATH 
No. 664 
20"x 20" 
^ 10.00 
This Bird Bath of Simple 
Classic design will be a delight¬ 
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Other artistic pieces 
made in our ever¬ 
lasting stony gray 
Terra Cotta include 
FLOWER POTS 
and BOXES 
VASES 
JARS 
SUN DIALS 
BIRD FONTS 
GAZING 
GLOBES 
BENCHES 
TABLES 
STATUARY, Etc. 
Write for sugges- 
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your garden No. 600. 18"wide, ?5.00 
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3218 WALNUT ST PHILADELPHIA, 
B ODDINGTON’S 
Midsummer 
Garden Guide 
Listing strawberry plants, bulbs for fall 
planting, seasonable seeds, insecticides, 
implements, etc., mailed on request. 
ARTHUR T. BODDINGTON & CO., Inc. 
Dept. H. . 128 CHAMBERS ST., NEW YORK 
Shrubs and Trees 
for Every Place 
Shade trees, evergreens, shrubs, roses, 
all these and more are grown at 
Cromwell Gardens. Our garden hand¬ 
book is free to those who ask. 
CROMWELL GARDENS 
A. N. Pierson, Inc. Box 14, Cromwell, Conn. 
Everything in Flower Seeds 
The best Annuals and Peren¬ 
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Iris, Peonis, etc. Catalog free., 
THE WING SEED COMPANY 
Box 127 MECHANICSBURG, OHIO 
Birds and Flowers 
AHtract 
the birds 
and otherwise 
add to the 
charm of your 
garden by 
using Wheat- 
ley Garden 
Pottery. 
Our Catalogue 
on request. 
Wheatley 
Pottery is 
weatherproof and inexpensive. Order 
direct from the Pottery. We pay the 
freight on ail purchases amounting to 
$5.00 or over. (U. S.) 
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Established 1879 Dealers Attention 
