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L^XWINJ GRASS SEED 
WEEKS 
FROM SOWING 
READY FOR 
MOWING. 
THE BEAUTIFUL LAWNS 
■IN AMERICA- 
ARE MADE IN 4 TO 6 WEEKS' TIME WITH 
The "Henderson" Lawn Grass Seed. 
IT IS USED AND PRAISED BY THOUSANDS FROM MAINE TO CALIFORNIA. 
PRODUCING A PERFECT AND PERMANENT SWARD OF LUXURIANT RICHNESS; AND IS EQUALLY VALUABLE 
FOR RENOVATING IMPERFECT AND WORN-OUT LAWNS. 
T HERE is nothing more attractive than a well-designed house surrounded by artistically treated grounds; and of the essential 
features of home grounds none is so important as a beautiful lawn—the rich, green, velvety turf being the heart and life 
of all. A lawn may be formed by laying turf or by sowing seed. The gain in time by sodding is so slight as to scarcely 
be worthy of consideration, while the results obtained by both methods are not to be compared. Sods in dry weather leave 
crevices about which the grass dies out; then the grasses that compose a pasture or roadside sod (generally the kind used for 
sodding lawns) are not at all the best sorts for forming a perfect lawn, and will not give a smooth, elegant surface. 
The “Henderson” Lawn Grass Seed produces a perfect 
and enduring lawn of verdant richness, a firm, deep and elastic 
turf, and is often ready for mowing in four weeks from sow- 
ing. This celebrated Lawn Grass seed is a balanced blend 
of various native and foreign fine-leaved, deep-rooting grasses 
of interweaving habit, that flourish under our varied conditions, 
soils and climates, growing during different seasons of the year, 
so that a deep green, smooth, and velvety sward, free from 
clumps, is maintained from snow to snow, year after year. 
The “Henderson” Lawn Grass Seed is, relatively, the cheap¬ 
est seed offered, because, being freed from chaff, it weighs 20 
lbs. per measured bushel, while other lawn grass mixtures aver¬ 
age only 14 lbs. to the bushel. It is also the Purest and 
Cleanest lawn grass seed, being absolutely free from weed 
seeds. 
Regarding Kentucky Blue Grass, so widely advertised as an 
ideal lawn grass, it has merits and demerits. Where Blue 
Grass thrives it eventually makes a good lawn, but it is slow 
to thicken up, requiring not,less than two years to form a good 
sward, and does not hold its color in hot weather; it will not 
thrive on acid soils, and a large proportion of soils in the lower 
altitudes, especially in the Coast States, are inclined to acidity. 
Kentucky Blue Grass is quite extensively used for lawns on the 
Pacific Coast and on the limestone soils of Kentucky, etc., but 
the results of this or any one grass in no way compare with the 
beauty and fine velvety texture of lawns made with an intelli¬ 
gently blended mixture of grasses of neat, close, interweaving 
growth, such as compose the “Henderson ” Lawn Grass mixture; 
and besides, the latter will make a thick close turf in a few 
weeks’ time. 
We have made the formation and renovation of lawns a study for years, and thousands of the finest lawns and grass plots 
in America were obtained by following our instructions and using THE "HENDERSON" LAWN GRASS SEED. 
(. By Mail , Express or Freight , at our option) 
15c. per pint. 25c. per quart. 85c. for 4 qts. 
$1.50 per peck. $5.00 per bushel of 20 lbs. 
The quantity required for new lawns i is 5 bushels per acre. Fo: 
plot 15x20, or 300 square feet, use 1 quart. For renovating . 
PRICE-WHENDERSON LAWN GRASS SEED 
