


The difference between ANNUAL 
and PERENNIAL Seeds.... 
MAY home-owners desiring a beautiful lawn do not 
realize that grasses, like many other plants, are of 
two types—PERENNIAL, sprouting year after year from 
the same roots; and ANNUAL (temporary), dying com- 
pletely each year unless re-seeded. If an ANNUAL plant 
is permitted to blossom and mature it re-seeds the 
ground around it. But lawns are not permitted to mature 
and re-seed. We mow our lawns close to the ground; 
blossoming is never accomplished and, at the first touch 
of frost, the temporary grasses are dead. 
The most important essential of good seed is, therefore, a 
mixture of carefully selected PERENNIAL varieties,—and 
that’s what DRUMCLIFF seed is! 
Timothy and other temporary grasses are used extensively for 
cheap lawn grass mixtures because they are relatively cheap and 
put forth a luxuriant and early growth, but such mixtures CANNOT 
be expected to produce a heavy, permanent turf. 
Poor lawns die with the coming of Winter because the temporary 
grasses have completed their life cycle; the first freeze kills the 
roots. That does not happen when you plant DRUMCLIFF PEREN- 
NIAL Lawn Grass Seed, which grows grass that comes up fresh 
every Spring, green and heavy from deep, permanent roots. 
As grass seed is harvested it contains a large proportion of chaff, 
trash and other worthless matter, as well as poorly developed seed 
of little or no germinating value. This worthless material can be and 
is cleaned out by those dealers who are earnestly endeavoring to 
supply the public with high-grade seed. The market, however, is 
flooded with low-grade packages marked “grass seed” which often 
contain as high as 50% of useless material that cannot possibly con- 
tribute a single blade of grass to any lawn! 
DRUMCLIFF PERENNIAL Lawn Grass SEED is a mixture of care- 
fully selected PERENNIAL grasses, with but a small portion of quick- 
growing varieties necessary to act as a “nurse-crop” to protect the 
slower growing, permanent PERENNIAL grass. Before mixing, all 
of our seed is carefully cleaned, sifted and tested for weight, quality 
and germination. Therefore, in DRUMCLIFF PERENNIAL Lawn Grass 
SEED you get only pure seed—clean, heavy and weed-free. 
WHY YOU SHOULD USE DRUMCLIFF 
PERENNIAL LAWN GRASS SEED 
Avoid the trouble and expense of 
re-making your lawn every year... 
Le you plant your lawn with cheap temporary grass seed, you're 
going to have an inferior lawn that needs re-seeding every 
vear, for no amount of water or fertilizer can make two crops 
grow from one lot of seed of the annual varieties. The surest 
and least expensive way to have a beautiful lawn is to plant 
PERENNIAL grass seed. For a strong stand of grass, order your 
DRUMCLIFF grass seed right now and plant it at the first favor- 
able opportunity. 
If I knew how large your lawn is I would like to send you 
enough DRUMCLIFF PERENNIAL Seed to give you the finest, 
heaviest, greenest lawn you ever had. I want you to examine 
our seed carefully to see how clean and pure it is. PLANT IT, 
AND SEE WHAT A FINE HEAVY TURF YOU GET. Use it to make 
a new lawn or to re-seed and strengthen your present lawn. 
DRUMCLIFF PERENNIAL Lawn Grass Seed is economical; its pur- 
ity and high germination give you a maximum of strong, vigorous 
plants from a minimum of seed. Look at the chart below to find 
out how much seed you need, then send us your order on 10 days’ 
FREE examination. I know you will be rewarded with a thick 
carpet of green grass year after year. 
D. E. Dugdale. 
THE DRUMCLIFF COMPANY, 












CHART For 
Estimating 
Your Grass Seed Needs 
Quantity Makes Re-Seeds 
of Seeds New Lawn Old Lawn 
Subs. PL 250God. Vint 2,900 Sq. Ft. 
10 Lbs. 2000 Sq. Ft 5,000 Sq. Ft. 
15e1.bs: hy heb pete Pin St A 7,900 Sq. Ft. 
20 Lbs. 5,000 Sq. Ft. 10,000 Sq. Ft. 
25 Lbs. 6,250 Sq. Ft. 12:500-Sae Ft 
50 Lbs. 12,500 Sq. Ft. 25,000 Sq. Ft. 
100 Lbs. 25,000 Sq. Ft. 50,000 Sq. Ft. 
Directions For Planting Sent With Each Order. 
SEND ALL ORDERS TO 
The Drumcliff Company 
- Towson, Maryland 
