Allens Pre-Treated EVERGREENS Grow 
Better — Make Your Winter Yard Cheerful Too 
PINE, Austrian. Tall, broad based, very handsome blue-green foli- 
heavily needled, dark rich green. age. 2 to 3 ft., $2.50 each. 
Hardy and vigorous but must 
be planted only where it can SPRUCE, Colorado Blue Select 
have the space to reach its full (Picea pungens glauca). This is 
height. 2 to 3 ft., $3.00 each. one of the showiest and most 
impressive evergreens, sur- 
PINE, Scotch. Like the Austrian passed only by Koster’s Blue 
its quick strong growth makes Spruce, The blue shade usually 
it valuable for protective improves with age. 24 inch, 
screens; very hardy, As a rule it $5.00 each, 
grows taller than Austrian, with 
softer needles, and shows a hint SPRUCE, Norway. A loftier, open 
of reddish brown in its bark and tree of pyramidal habit, ex- 
forming cones. 2 to 3 ft, B&B, ceedingly picturesque. Very 
$3.00 each, popular and effective in groups 
RETINOSPORA plumosa aurea. A of evergreens. <2 to 4) ft... 92.50 
handsome tree of medium each. 
growth, with beautiful yellow- 
ish foliage. Slender, pliable 
branches give it a feathery ap- 
pearance. One of the very best. 
2 to 3 ft., $2.50 each. 
YEW, Japan (Taxus cuspidata). 
Beautiful Yew of moderate 
bushy growth, Upright branches 
densely clothed with short 
leaves of dull green, Fine for 

Norway Spruce 


RETINOSPORA plumosa (Green), planting around cottages and Use RA-PID-GRO 
Same as Retinospora plumosa brick houses. 18 to 24-in. font: eee 
aurea, except that this has a spread, B&B, $3.00 each. Retinospora Regularly (See Page 30) 

PLANT ALLEN’S 2uich-Grewing LAWN SEED 
There is nothing more pleasing to the eye or that adds 
more beauty and value to the home, than a beautiful, well- 
kept lawn. You never get tired of a good lawn and no home 
is complete without it. 
Since it is so important, and since it is to last for years, 
nothing in its construction should be slighted. By making a 
good lawn at the start, much worry, labor, and expense 
will be saved, 
Shady Nook Mixture 
Have you a lawn that is shaded by trees? If so, try a few 
pounds of our Shady Nook Grass Mixture, which is just 
what you need to produce fine, compact, velvety grass under 
such conditions, Shaded ground often becomes sour; in that 
case, give it an application of crushed limestone before seed- 
ing, applied at the rate of 25 pounds for 500 square feet. 
Seed at the rate of 1 pound to about 250 square feet. Lb. 
90c; 5 lbs. $4.00; 10 lbs. $7.50, postpaid. 
Allen’s Evergreen Mixture 
For a Good, Clean, Quick Lawn 
This mixture is composed of the choicest grasses for 
lawn purposes and is especially made to produce a crop of 
grass very quickly. Where conditions were extremely 
favorable, we have had a good stand ready for the mower 
in three weeks. This mixture contains no trash and is 
adapted to either clay, sandy, or loam soil. Plant at the rate 
of 1 pound to 300 square feet, or in the case of renovating 
an old lawn, 1 pound to 600 square feet, depending upon how 
thin the grass, Lb. 90c; 5 lbs. $4.00; 10 lbs. $7.50, postpaid. 
Creeping Bent 
(Agrostis stolonifera) 
Modern golf has popularized this thickly rooting, densely 
cropping grass for putting greens, Makes a velvety smooth, 
low, thrifty lawn surface. Sow 60 pounds to the acre, Lb. 
$1.50, postpaid. 
Kentucky Blue Grass 
One of the most fancy grasses that we have today, largely 
used in lawn making. Starts growing early in the spring, 
continuing until the ground freezes late in the fall. Lh. 80c; 
5 lbs. $3.75, postpaid, 7 
White Dutch Clover 
This is very good seed to use in renovating old lawns, 
especially on sandy soil, because the plant roots deeper than 
any other variety of grass, and is not affected so much by 
drought. Lb. $1.50; 3 lbs. $4.00, postpaid. 
Renovate Your Lawn 
When your lawn gets thin and patchy, sow our 
Evergreen Mixture at the rate of about 1 pound to 
every 500 square feet and press in with a roller, If 
you do this a few seasons, and top-dress in the winter 
with well-rotted compost, your unsightly lawn can be 
made beautiful again. 

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