JAMES VICK’S SONS, ROCHESTER, N. Y 
GRASS SEED 
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V I C K’S GRASS SEED 
for tHe Lawn and Pleasure Grounds. 
N OTHING gives more satisfaction about a house than a good lawn, and nothing is more easily made and kept in order by a little 
well directed care. To get Grass Seed up quickly and evenly, the surface must be mellow, so that it will not bake after a 
rain. If the soil is clayey, after sowing the Grass Seed cover the surface with a light coating of manure, which may remain, except 
a little of the coarsest. Four bushels of Grass Seed for an acre are required to make a good lawn in a short time; for small plots, five 
quarts to six square rods, or about one quart to a square rod, should be sown. Sow Grass Seed for lawns as early as possible in the spring, 
so as to give the seed the benefit of early spring rains. Late sowing is seldom successful. It is better to wait until September than 
to sow after warm weather has commenced. However much care is bestowed on the soil and seed, no lawn will be beautiful without 
frequent mowing and rolling, and this will repay one for all expense and labor in producing a velvet, carpet-like lawn. The best single 
kind is Kentucky Blue Grass. To sixty pounds (per acre) of this add White Clover and Sweet Vernal Grass,'about two pounds of each, 
and this will make an excellent lawn. Our preparation of Lawn Grass contains Blue Grass, White Clover, and Sweet Vernal Grass, and 
other very choice and fine Lawn Grasses, and is, we think, the very best preparation possible for our hot and dry summers, as we have 
ong been making experiments to ascertain this fact. 
VICK'S VELVET LAWN GRASS 
At the price per bushel and peck we ship by Express or Freight, not prepaid. No charge for bags, packing, or cartage. By quart ai. J 
pound we prepay postage. As many of our customers have written heretofore asking the quantity for certain space, we submit herewith a comparative table 
that will admit of close figuring, showing how much seed is needed for any number of square feet: 
For i acre, 43560 square feet 
“ l /t “ 21780 “ 
“ K “ 10890 " “ 
4 bu. or 80 lbs. 
2 “ 40 ** 
x “ 20 “ 
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For 1-12 acre, 3630 square feet . . 7 lbs. 
“ 1-16 “ 2723 “ “ • • bu. or 5 “ 
“ 1.32 “ 1362 " “ . . 214 “ 
14520 square feet . . x\ 4 > bu. or 27 lbs 
7260 “ “ . . 14 “ 
5445 “ “ • • 10 “ 
“ -^hiking a Lawn,” by C. W. Scelye, a little booklet of ten pages, giving full directions for preparing the soil, grading, time of planting, mowing and after care, 
price 10 cents, or free with an order for a quart or more of grass seed. 
VicK’s Velvet Lawn Grass. The Velvet Mixture contains all of the very best varieties of grasses suited 
for the purpose of making a Lawn beautiful in appearance, durable and listing, and which will stand the frosts of winter and 
the hot sun of summer, showing a deep rich green at all seasons. We make only one mixture of this Velvet Lawn Grass, and it 
can be sown with equally good effect on Terrace, Polo, Tennis, or Park grounds, while it is especially adapted for a beautiful 
home or residence lawn. The seed used is pure and heavy and especially cleaned, and the finest ever offered. 
Price, bushel of 20 lbs. $4.00; peck, 5 lbs. $1.10; less than peck quantity, per lb. 40 cents; per quart. 25 
Kentucky Blue Grass ( Poapratcnsis ). In conjunction with White Red Top, fane y (Agrostis vulgaris). Valuable in a mixture for either 
Clover it forms the finest and closest turf. As a pasture grass it fur- lawns, pastures, or meadows, growing in almost any soil, moist or dry. 
nishes the most nourishing food for cattle of any, until winter; thrives F° r l awns forty-five pounds; for pasture twenty-five to thirty pounds 
on a variety of soils, but does best in dry and somewhat shady local- 0 pcr acre - Fancy dcancd - P er 100 ,hs - P°«nd.35 
ities Sivfv mnnHc f«r , . 1 r Sweet Vernal Grass, Truk Perennial (Anthoxanthum odoratutn). 
mcs. sixty pounds tor lawn and twenty pounds per acre for pasture. .... , f r .L .... , . . 
r v .„ , , » . . „ y I he chief merit of this grass lies m its fragrant odor. As a mixture for 
Extra fancy, re-cleaned, xoolbs. *x8; lb. 35 lawns and pasture , ands it is invaluable. Per lb. 75 cents; ounce . . xo 
CO op, per 100 lbs. g 7 ; per bushel (14 lbs.) £1.15; peck 35 cents ; lb, , . go ANNUAL SWBBT Vernal, per lb. gj 
