How to Have a Beautiful Lawn 
The best lawns result from early fall seeding and fertilization, 
allowing nine months of cool weather to establish deep roots 
and crowd out weeds which thrive during the hot summer. 
OLD LAWNS should be reseeded every fall. Cut the grass 
close. Stir the soil with a sharp rake. Sow thickest on bare 
spots. Roll lightly and water freely. 
NEW LAWNS require 1 lb. seed to 200 square feet. Dig up 
and pulverize the ground thoroughly. Work fertilizer into the 
soil and rake till smooth. Broadcast the seed thickly, half one 
way and half the other. Cover lightly and roll or pack the soil 
so the tender seedlings can take hold quickly. Water generously. 
Wood’s Lawn Seeds are blends of the highest quality grasses 
adapted to this section. They produce fine, deep rooted, perma¬ 
nent sods that withstand droughts, intense heat and other ad¬ 
versities. They contain no weed seeds that spoil a lawn, or cheap 
coarse grasses like timothy that form unsightly tufts. 
“I build houses and plant lawns around them and found 
from experience that Wood’s Evergreen is the finest lawn 
grass for this section. It has never failed to make a beau¬ 
tiful stand.”—W. W. Milstead, Winston-Salem, N. C. 
FERTILIZE LAWNS IN THE FALL 
Lawns, like humans, require regular 
feeding with a properly balanced diet 
The best time to fertilize lawns is at 
seeding time in early fall. This starts 
the young grass off quickly, establishing 
it before extreme weather. Summer fer¬ 
tilization weakens grass but encourages 
weeds. Good lawns need fertilizer, humus 
or organic matter and lime. 
LAWN FERTILIZERS 
A good lawn fertilizer must be well 
balanced, quick acting but long lasting. 
Cheap, unbalanced fertilizers prove the 
most expensive, as they cause a super¬ 
ficial growth, weakening the grass and 
letting it be killed by the first drought 
Wood’s Standard Lawn Fertilizer is 
ideal, as it has all the food elements re¬ 
quired by growing grass, blended in the 
proper proportion. These become avail¬ 
able steadily but slowly and are not com¬ 
pletely dissolved and washed away by 
the first rain. It is high in organic mat¬ 
ter and not apt to burn. It produces thick 
velvety turf with deep roots that with¬ 
stand drought, heat or cold. It is the 
most economical good lawn fertilizer, as 
it only requires 1 lb. to 50 square feet. 
Vigoro is a complete, highly concen¬ 
trated, odorless plant food for lawns or 
gardens. Apply 1 lb. to 25 square feet. 
Bone Meal is a good fertilizer for 
lawns, flowers or shrubs. It will not bum 
and has a lasting effect. Apply 1 lb. to 
10 square feet. 
WOOD’S TREE FERTILIZER 
Ideal for trees and shmbs. Use 2 lbs. 
per tree. Stick holes in the ground a foot 
deep, 3 feet apart, in a circle, half way 
from trunk to edge of tree. Fill half full 
of fertilizer and cover up. 
HUMUS OR ORGANIC MATTER 
Besides fertilizer soil must contain organic mat¬ 
ter to lighten it, letting roots penetrate and 
hold moisture. Lack of humus is the most fre¬ 
quent reason soils fail. Stable manure is unde¬ 
sirable as it adds weed seed and quickly decays 
and disappears. Wood’s Hyper-Humus, Peat 
Moss, Sheep and Cattle Manure are scientifically 
prepared humus that last much longer, do not 
contain weed seed and correct many soil ailments. 
Hyper-Humus an odorless, cultivated, finely pul¬ 
verized, black, rich, peat humus that lasts ten 
years in the soil. It contains over 90% organic 
matter, 3 times the value of stable manure. It 
absorbs and holds 90% of its weight in water. 
It breaks up and aerates clay soils; binds to¬ 
gether sandy soils. Use 1 lb. to 4 square feet. 
Peat Moss, fine for mulching or for lawns. Use 
1 lb to 2 sq. ft.; 150-lb. bale to 300 square feet. 
Wood’s High-Grade Sheep or Cattle Manure, 
the supreme complete natural organic fertilizers 
for lawns, finely pulverized. 1 lb. to 10 sq ft. 
Lime to Correct Soil Acidity 
Lime encourages the growth of clover and fine 
grasses, like Kentucky Blue, but discourages 
weeds, which prefer acid soils. Apply 2 lbs. 
Hydrated Lime or 4 lbs. Ground Lime to 100-sq. ft. 
PRICES: See bottom of pages 16 and 17. 
It is false economy to buy cheap lawn seed of low quality 
and poor germination. It costs less per pound but requires twice 
as many pounds per square foot. The resulting lavra is unsight¬ 
ly, full of weeds, soon dies and must be 
replanted. 
WHAT GRASS SEED TO PLANT 
No one grass grows continuously 
throughout the year or does well under 
all climatic and soil conditions To have 
a year round lawn it is necessary to plant 
a mixture of grasses properly blended for 
your special conditions. We find these 
mixtures best after 60 years experience 
seeding lawns, golf courses and parks. 
In Eastern Carolina and farther South, 
sow Wood’s Dixie. Elsewhere, Wood’s 
Evergreen is best for average lavras; 
“Super-Green” for lavras that receive ex¬ 
tra attention; Emerald Park for lawns 
receiving little attention, large areas, 
parks, athletic fields and air ports; Shady 
Park under trees and behind houses. For 
a winter green, yet permanent lavra, sow 
Park-Way, or Winter Green. 
Wood’s Evergreen Lavra Grass 
The best general purpose mixture for 
Virginia, the mountain districts of the 
South and all states farther north, as it 
makes a vigorous year ’round growth 
with only average attention. Composed of 
Kentucky Blue Grass, Bent and other 
fine grasses and White Dutch Clover. It 
does not contain Timothy, or other coarse 
grasses used in cheap mixtures. Do not 
confuse with cheap, inferior mixtures 
sold by some other seedsmen under the 
name “Evergreen.” 
Wood’s Super-Green Lawn Grass 
The finest of all lawn grass mixtures 
at any price. It makes a thick, smooth 
sod as beauttiful as a golf putting green 
that will stay green the year ’round. A 
blend of Certified Bent and the choicest 
grasses; but no clover. 
Wood’s Dixie Lawn Grass 
The ideal lavra grass mixture for the 
South. It makes a velvet lawn that will 
stay green throughout the cold winter 
and under the most trying summer heat 
and drought when other lawns become 
brown and parched. The best grass for 
steep terraces or to stand heavy tramp¬ 
ing. Will make a quick, vigorous, yet 
lasting growth on light, sandy or infer¬ 
tile land where other grasses have failed. 
W’ood’s Emerald Park Lawn Grass 
A good inexpensive blend of fine grass¬ 
es for a year ’round lavra receiving little 
attention, athletic field, park or airport. 
It contains no coarse tufty grasses like 
timothy. It is better than the best lawn 
grass sold by many seedsmen. 
Wood’s Shady Park Lawn Grass 
Few grasses thrive in shade. Our mix¬ 
ture is composed of dwarf grasses espe¬ 
cially adapted to shady places under 
trees and around the house. Under trees 
apply a double quantity of fertilizer. 
Park-Way, the Best Winter Green Grass 
An inexpensive mixture of Rye Grass 
and Evergreen Lawn Grass It grows 
quickly, stays green all winter and leaves 
a permanent fine quality lawn next sum¬ 
mer. It should be sown on every lavra 
that has grown up in wild summer 
grasses that die with cold weather. It is 
much better than Rye Grass sown alone 
which crowds out permanent grasses. 
Wood’s Winter-Green Lawn Grass 
Sow on top of summer grasses, which 
die in cold weeather for a quick, beauti¬ 
ful green lawn all winter. 
“I planted Wood’s Evergreen Lawn Grass last fall and it grew the 
year round and is the best lawn in town in spite of a terrible drought.”— 
A. H. Hall, Anderson Co., S. C 
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