30 EDWARD LEHDE NURSERIES, GARDENVILLE, N. Y. 

Lawns 
How to Make 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 quality 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 conse- 
quently 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 150 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 fea- 
tures to strive for in the construction and main- 
tenance 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 sea- 
sons of the year, the temperatures are ordinarily 
cool and the rainfall plentiful—two conditions 
which are especially favorable for a steady growth 
of young grass. If the seeding is done in the Sum- 
mer, 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 filling, 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 comparatively level, the top 
soil should be spread evenly over it. 
One of the best soil conditioners is peat moss. 
We recommend its use on all soils, though the 
poorer soils and the clay soil need it more. The 
peat should be spread 1 to 2 inches thick and 
worked into the top 3 or 4 inches of ground. The 
little extra time and money spent before the lawn 
is seeded returns more dividends than the same 
amount used afterwards. 
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. The ground then should 
be roughened slightly with a rake. Sow the seed; 
do not cover it. Watering with a spray will roll 
enough of the loosened ground to lightly cover the 
seed. Keep moist until the seed germinates and the 
grass is well established. Then reduce the water- 
ing gradually. This makes the grass root more 
sibd ee The day before the first cutting, roll the 
awn. 
Maintaining the New Lawn 
Regardless of how carefully the new lawn has 
been started, it must be painstakingly cared for 
during the first Summer if it is to develop into a 
lawn with a uniform, thick turf. 
The new lawn should be watered often enough 
to keep the soil moist. Frequent and light water- 
ings are best until after the grass becomes estab- 
lished. When there is no longer danger of washing 
the young plants from their anchorage, the soil 
should be thoroughly soaked to a good depth at 
each watering. The water should always be ap- 
plied in the form of a fine spray. 
WATERING 
After a lawn is established, each watering should 
should be thorough, so that the water will go down 
some depth. It is not necessary or advisable to 
water too often; if done well, once a week in dry 
weather is sufficient. If the moisture is down far 
enough so that the roots are compelled to reach for 
it, they will not be so easily injured during hot 
weather.. 
DO NOT LIME THE LAWN 
Since a neutral soil favors the common lawn 
weeds more than it does the grass, the lawn soil 
should not be limed unless it is very strongly acid. 
The unthrifty appearance of certain lawns is usually 
due to lack of plant food and not too high acidity. 
Lime is a soil conditioner and not a plant food. 
FEEDING 
About eight or ten weeks after the lawn is 
seeded, the young grass should again be fed with 
Vigoro. The application is made at the rate of 2 
lbs. per 100 square feet of lawn. 
Plant food should be applied when the grass is 
dry and then brushed from the grass with a broom 
ALL PRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE 
