Good Seed is essential. Our 
mixtures contain only the finest 
natural grasses, selected for 

Lawn at Homebush Farm where our annual Tulip display is held 
WATERER’S SPECIAL 
GRASS SEED MIXTURES 
HOMEBUSH 
Evergreen Lawn Mixture 
The Finest in Lawn Grass Mixtures 
After years of compounding, and testing formulas 
of the finest lawn grass seeds, endeavoring to find a 
lawn grass mixture that would produce a permanent 
and superior deep green velvety turf, we believe we 
have attained success in our ‘‘Homebush” Evergreen 
Lawn Mixture. ‘‘Homebush” is a combination of the 
finest recleaned permanent grasses which produce a 
luxuriant, deep green, velvety turf that will stand up 
under our trying conditions of heat and drought. 
At our display-grounds, Homebush Farm, a lawn of 
about two acres was sown with this mixture which has 
developed into a beautiful carpet of closely interwoven, 
firm, elastic turf, arousing the admiration and comment 
of thousands of visitors. 
We can highly recommend this mixture to give a 
perfect and permanent lawn. Can be had with or 
without White Clover, as desired. Mlb. 45 cts.; lb. 85 
cts.; 5 Ibs. $4; 10 Ibs. $7.50; 25 lbs. $18. 
WATERER’S SUPER 
LAWN GRASS MIXTURE 
A combination of various American and European types of 
fine-leaved, deep-rooting grasses of interweaving habit, that 
flourish under our trying conditions of sunshine and drought, and 
good, bad and indifferent soils, growing during different periods 
of the year, so that it maintains a close, velvety surface which 
does not burn brown in summer and is not killed by hard freezing. 
This Super Mixture has been given the utmost care and selection 
to keep it strictly of the highest grade, to insure a perfect and 
luxuriant lawn with closely interwoven, firm, elastic turf. Mlb. 
40 cts.; lb. 70 cts.; 5 Ibs. $3.25; 10 lbs. $6; 25 Ibs. $14.50. 

purity and high germination. 

The Year 1942 Marks 
OUR GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY in Philadelphia. Our 
founder, Hosea Waterer, came to America from England 
in 1876 to exhibit Hybrid Rhododendrons and Azaleas at 
the Centennial Exposition. The plants which he brought to 
America at that time had been grown in his father’s nursery 
in England, which was then over 150 years old. America 
appealed to Mr. Waterer and he decided to become an Ameri- 
can citizen and set up business as an importer of choice 
seeds and plants. In 1892 he established his business at 
107-109 South Seventh Street, Philadelphia. Later, he 
moved to our present location, 714 Chestnut Street. 
Hosea Waterer passed away in 1926. However, his two 
sons, Anthony and Harry, have maintained the great tradi- 
tions of their father, upholding his standards of quality and 
service. From the very beginning, the ideals of Hosea 
Waterer have been reflected in the outstanding varieties 
of seeds, bulbs, and plants which he introduced to the 
American public. 
On this great occasion, we say thank you to our hosts 
of friends for their faith in us, and their patronage through 
the years. We shall do our best to maintain always the 
standards which have kept this business foremost in Ameri- 
can Horticulture. 
WATERER’S SPECIAL 
EVERGREEN LAWN MIXTURE 
is composed of the best natural lawn grasses in the proper pro- 
portions of enough varieties to insure a good stand of grass in a 
wide diversity of soils and situations. It includes sorts for both 
dry and damp soils, for acid and limey ground, and, in fact, 
there are seeds of enough varieties for different purposes to make 
sure of a smooth even stand and a lawn continually green and 
flourishing under almost all ordinary conditions of climate, and 
able to withstand hard usage. In other words, it is as near fool- 
proof as we know how to make it. 4lb. 35 cts.; Ib. 60 cts.; 
5 lbs. $2.75; 10 Ibs. $5; 25 Ibs. $12. 
WATERER’S MIXTURE FOR 
SHADY PLACES 
There are always spots under.trees and in the shadow of build- 
ings where the sun-loving grasses will not grow. For places of 
this kind we have prepared a careful mixture of those grasses 
which naturally thrive in the shade. This mixture consists of 
the highest grade of recleaned seeds, and should produce a good 
lawn in difficult shady places. Even shade-loving grasses will 
not grow under trees without being watered and fertilized 
because the tree roots are very greedy and absorb the moisture 
and plant-food from the soil. Mlb. 40 cts.; Ib. 70 cts.; 5 lbs. 
$3.25; 10 lbs. $6; 25 lbs. $14.50. 
WATERER’S SEASHORE 
LAWN GRASS SEED 
A mixture of grasses peculiarly suited for seaside lawns, com- 
posed of strong-rooted varieties which will quickly produce a 
fae turf. Mlb. 35 cts.; lb. 60 cts.; 5 Ibs. $2.75; 10 lbs. $5; 
25 lbs. $12. 
If Grass Seed is wanted by Parcel Post, please add for postage at your zone rate. See page 91 
