LAWN MAKING AND SPRAYING 
HILLSDALE LANDSCAPE CO. 
LAWN MAKING 
To make a good lawn that will last requires work. In making a new lawn or in 
remaking an old one, the soil should be loosened and pulverized thoroughly to a depth 
of 10 inches, and manure or peat moss and fertilizer mixed thoroughly with it. Then, after 
the soil has been thoroughly loosened and regraded, a good seed mixture should be sown 
evenly at the rate of 6 lbs. per 1,000 sq. ft. After sowing the seed, lightly rake, and roll 
and water. Do not allow the soil to become dry once the seed has started to germinate. 
We recommend a complete fertilizer high in phosphorous for new or remade lawns. 
For established lawns, reseed in early spring or early autumn with a good seed mixture 
at the rate of 2 or 3 lbs. per 1,000 sq. ft., topdress lightly with a good clean topsoil and 
fertilize with a complete fertilizer high in nitrogen. This treatment will greatly discourage 
weed growth. 
If sod is to be used in place of seed, the soil should be prepared as outlined above and 
then the sod laid, tamped, rolled and watered. 
SPRAYING 
In order to keep your plants healthful and vigorous they need careful periodic 
examination for insect and disease attacks. During the growing seasons, inspection should 
be made for leaf-eating, and sucking insects, and fungous diseases. These are cured 
usually by spraying with arsenate of lead, nicotine spray or dusting with sulfur for 
the disease in the order named. For the two principal insects attacking evergreens, use 
arsenate of lead spray against bagworms, and sulfur dust against red spider. 
When the trees and shrubs are dormant, an inspection should be made for scale. These 
are tiny hard-shelled mites which attach themselves to the bark of various kinds of trees 
and shrubs and suck the vital life-giving sap from the plant. They are controlled by a 
dormant oil or lime sulfur spray. 
We have the most modern type of power spray equipment which develops a very high 
pressure and is capable of throwing a mist-like spray to the very top of a full grown shade 
tree, and yet it so easily controlled that it may also be used on the most delicate shrub. 
This equipment with experienced operators is available to you for a very small charge 
per actual gallons of spray used. 
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We Carry a Complete Line of Spray Materials 
