This is one of our favorite pictures. A historical home, a velvety lawn, a beautiful garden and a gracious lady. What could be 
more fitting as an introduction to Quality Lawn Grass and Flower Seeds? 
SENECA LAWN MIXTURE 
The Best All-Purpose Lawn Grass Mixture 
For establishing a fine thick permanent © 
lawn under average soil conditions we highly 
recommend our Seneca Lawn Mixture which 
is especially prepared from the highest qual- 
ity grass seeds produced. It makes a smooth, 
green, velvety lawn with a thick bottom free 
from clumps. The mixture is composed of 
the following grasses (percentages are approxi- 
mate): 73% Kentucky Blue Grass, 15% Ulahee 
Creeping Fescue, 10% Red Top, 2% Wild 
White Clover. 
Kentucky Blue Grass makes the thick basic 
turf; it responds to good fertility (likes a lime- 
stone soil or well-limed soil) and flourishes in 
spring and fall. Ilahee Creeping Fescue is 
deep-rooted and thrives under adverse condi- 
tions including hot weather and poor, sandy 
soils. Wild White Clover blends well with 
the other grasses, stays green all summer and 
enriches the soil. 1% Ib. $1.05; lb. $1.90; 5 Ibs. 
$9.00; 10 Ibs. $17.50; 20 lbs. $34.00; 50 Ibs. 
$85.00, prepaid. 
LAWN GRASS 
Seneca Lawn Mixtures 
For New Lawns sow | lb. per 300 sq. ft. 
SENECA SHADY LAWN 
MIXTURE 
Shady areas are a problem. Many times 
it is because of low fertility rather than shade 
that causes those bare spots in the lawn. 
Some trees are heavy feeders close to the sur- 
face. If there is adequate plant food in the 
soil our Shady Lawn Mixture makes a beauti- 
ful turf in the shady spots. Our mixture con- 
tains the following special grasses (percentages 
are approximate): 50% Illahee Fescue, 15% 
Kentucky Blue Grass, 20% Poa trivialis, 5% 
Colonial Bent, 10% Red Top. ‘This com- 
bination provides grasses that will succeed in 
dry or moist locations, in fairly deep shade 
or moderately sunny spots. 1% lb. 95¢; Ib. 
$1.75; 5 Ibs. $8.25; 10 lbs. $16.00; 20 Ibs. 
$31.00; 50 Ibs. $77.50, prepaid. 
HINTS THAT HELP MAKE GOOD LAWNS 
A little good grass seed sown on established lawns in spring or fall, 1 Ib. to 500 or 600 square 
feet, will help keep the weeds out. 
Grass under trees needs double the food and water that 
sunny lawns do because tree roots are heavy feeders. Mow your lawn often with the mower 
set so that it leaves the grass 114 inches long, especially in hot weather. 
Cutting it shorter 
than 114 inches usually leads to killing out of the grass because there just isn’t enough of the 
plant left to grow vigorously. 
Seed sown on most soils that have not been fertilized either fails entirely or produces a 
discouraging, thin and weedy turf. 
For most soils an application of 40 lbs. of Vigoro or a 
5-10-5 fertilizer to each 1,000 square feet of lawn area gives good results. 
Don’t sprinkle your lawn every night. Soak it twice a week. Get the moisture down where 
the roots will go down after it and make a thick turf. 
If your lawn gets moss in it, rake thoroughly, spread bone meal over it, 10 Ibs. to 100 sq. Sillng 
and rake. 
Bone meal feeds, sweetens and areates the soil. 
Many broad-leaved weeds, including the common dandelion and the plantains, can be easily 
destroyed with 2,4-D. (See opposite). 
Write the Dept. of Extension Teaching, N. Y. S. College of Agriculture, Ithaca, N. Y., for 
a most helpful booklet, Bulletin No. 469 “The Home Lawn”. 
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FOR HELPFUL PLANTING INFORMATION TURN TO PAGE 36 
ECONOMY GRASS MIXTURE 
Annual Seeding 
There are often places so heavily shaded 
that permanent grasses cannot be established. 
There may also be ground around new houses 
for instance where permanent lawns are de- 
sired but cannot be established at present be- 
cause of the high cost of good lawn mixtures 
or because ground has not been permanently 
graded. For such conditions we suggest sow- 
ing this inexpensive mixture of quick grow- 
ing grasses (40% Timothy, 40% Annual Rye 
Grass, 10% Red Top, 10% Perennial Rye- 
grass) it will cover the ground and remain 
green until late summer. Very heavily shaded 
areas will have to be fertilized and reseeded 
each year. Lb. 60¢; 5 lbs. $2.75; 10 lbs. $5.00; 
20 lbs. $9.00 prepaid. 
Weed Your Lawn 
the Eary Way 
NIAGARA WEED KILLER (2,4-D): Amaz- 
ingly effective. One application actually 
kills dandelions, plantain and other broad- 
leaved weeds without harming the grass. 
(Caution: 2,4-D injures some bent grasses.) 
Also useful for killing poison ivy, bind- 
weed, thistles and annual weeds. 
Liquid Form: 1% pint (sufficient to treat 
2,000 square feet), 90¢, prepaid. 1 pt. 
(sufficient to treat 4,000 square feet), $1.50, 
prepaid. 
END-O-WEED CRAB GRASS KILLER. Ef- 
fective material containing Potassium Cya- 
nate for controlling crab grass. Apply either 
by sprayer or watering can (1% oz. per 100 
sq. ft.). 7 0z. can 98¢; 22 oz. can $2.59. Add 
10¢ postage. 
We had wonderful success with your seeds. We 
especially enjoyed your Seneca Sweet Corn. 
Mar. 13, 1953 John E. Peterson 
Auburn, Mich. 
