46 EDWARD LEHDE NURSERIES, GARDENVILLE, N. Y. 
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Lawns 
How to Ma\e Them 
Everyone wants a beautiful lawn. It not only is a beautiful thing in itself, but it sets off your 
flowers and enhances the beauty of your garden as nothing else will. It is not a difficult thing to 
have a beautiful lawn but it does require a little thought and care. One of the most important 
things is to use good seed. Our lawn grass seed mixtures are carefully blended of the finest qual¬ 
ity grass seeds, each mixture being made up of those grasses best suited for the purposes intended. 
Less expensive lawn grasses contain a smaller percentage of the fine growing grasses and con¬ 
sequently take longer for these grasses to crowd out the fast growing varieties but eventually 
make a good lawn. The germination is equally as good in the lower priced seeds; will make just 
as quick a lawn, but not as good an appearance for some time. One pound will seed about HO to 
250 square feet. Seeding less is all right, but takes longer to get a thick turf. 
MAKING A FINE LAWN 
The lawn forms the floor of the outdoor living room. 
Beauty and permanence are the main features to strive 
for in the construction and maintenance of the lawn. 
To be pleasing, the lawn turf must be dense, vigorous, 
and free from weeds. It must maintain its velvety green 
growth throughout the season. The possession of such a 
lawn requires that it be properly constructed and 
systematically fed. 
PRELIMINARY POINTS TO CONSIDER 
The best time to seed the new lawn is either in the 
early Spring or early Fall. At these two seasons of the 
year, the temperatures are ordinarily cool and the rain¬ 
fall plentiful—two conditions which are especially favor¬ 
able for a steady growth of young grass. If the seeding 
is done in the Summer, more attention to watering will 
be necessary as the soil for grass seedlings must be 
kept moist. 
SOIL PREPARATION 
Soil obtained in excavating for the basement and 
spread out for the lawn makes one of the poorest seed 
beds possible. Such soils are always low in organic 
matter and are usually in poor physical condition. 
In case it is necessary to use the basement soil for fill¬ 
ing, the surface soil should be removed and piled in a 
corner of the lot before the excavating is started. After 
the excavating soil has been spread out and made com¬ 
paratively level, the top soil should be spread evenly 
over it. 
After the spaded soil has been well pulverized, grade 
the soil to slope gently from the house. The grading 
will prevent water from standing around the foundation 
of the house. Next, level and roll until the seed bed 
is firm, then sow seed. 
