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prevent the fertilizer from burning the grass blades and will 
make it immediately available to the roots. Repeat the appli- 
cations of fertilizer two or three times during the summer to 
keep the lawn at its best. It is an important practice for 
established lawns as well as for new lawns. 
Buy Only High Quality Seed 
Reliable seed firms handling high grade lawn grass seeds 
make sure their seeds are as free from noxious weed seeds 
and other impurities as possible. All lawn grass seeds offered 
by Ferry-Morse Seed Co. are carefully milled, and the formu- 
lae used consist of the highest quality grasses for permanent 
lawns. Frequent germination tests are also made to be sure a 
high percentage of the seeds will grow if conditions are right. 
Repeated experiments on cheap grass seed mixtures show that 
they contain weed seeds, chaff, seeds of poor germination and 
frequently timothy, often disguised on packages under its 
scientific name, Phleum pratense. The roots of timothy grow 
from a bulblet, and no matter how closely they are set to- 
gether they never form turf. Timothy has no value as a lawn 
grass and is not sold by reliable seedsmen for that purpose. 
Sow at a Favorable Time 
As a usual thing, fall is the best time for seeding a lawn. 
The seeding should be done early enough so that the grass 
can get a good start before freezing weather. Just before 
autumn rains set in is an excellent time—choosing a day when 
you think it is likely to rain. If the grass gets a good start in 
fall, it will come up vigorously in spring and can compete 
with weeds better than when sown in spring. 
Spring seeding is usually successful in the North if it can 
be done early enough so that the grass can get a good start 
before hot, dry weather comes on. Sow just before the last 
fall of snow, if possible; as the snow melts, it carries the 
seed into the ground. Preparing the seed bed the fall before 


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