THE WETSEL SEED COMPANY 
Dependable Seeds, HARRISONBURG, VA. 
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WETSEL’S famous Lawn Grasses 
“THE BEST FOR VIRGINIA” 
The Value of a 
Good Lawn 
You need hardly be reminded of the 
advantages of a good green, vigorous, 
tough lawn around your premises. It is 
the very essence of beauty. It stimulates 
one’s pride and enhances the value of 
one’s property. No home is complete 
without it. Even a modest home looks 
well if surrounded by a healthy lawn, 
and without it a high-priced house never 
shows to advantage. 
A good lawn is comparatively easy 
to make and inexpensive. To be sure, it 
requires some work and general attention 
as well as some expense even after it has 
been established. But compared with the 
cost of a home and the advantages that it affords, the amount of 
energy and money needed are both small. It is not nearly so difficult 
or expensive to make a good lawn as some high-powered folks would 
have you believe. Remember, the cost of doing business at long 
range is very high; such seed houses have to charge more than those 
who distribute over a smaller area. 
GREEN ISLAND 
{ THEWETSEL SEED covinc. — 
i. WAREEONGURG, ya, 
Most of what you read on this page, as on other pages, is un- 
changed from last year. One of the problems involved in the 
preparation of a seed catalog is ‘‘how to give it a new look with 
new and interesting reading matter.” 
We are making some progress in that direction this year by 
dispensing with the descriptions of varieties that are so well 
known that they are as common as sugar and salt. This space is 
being used for a more extensive description of the newer and 
less known varieties and for cultural directions, insecticides and 
plant foods that have proved beneficial to various crops. 
But when much previous thought has been given to the essence 
of ‘‘The value of a good lawn’’ or ‘‘How to make a lawn,” there 
is no point in changing it just for the sake of a change. The 
fundamentals of such endeavors do not change. Much the same 
applies to the ‘‘composition” of lawn seed. \ 
There is, however, one ‘‘new”’ factor in the lawn grass situation 
this year. It relates to price. If you haven’t heard, you are going 
to be shocked when you examine these prices, especially if you 
compare them with last year’s. 
The reason is very simple! Kentucky Blue Grass, the very 
heart of all good lawn grass mixtures, has more than doubled 
in price. In order to maintain a high standard of quality, by 
including the very minimum requirement of blue grass, the price 
of lawn seed had to be advanced accordingly. Cheap lawn seed 
is something always to be avoided! With prices high, the tempta- 
tion to compound virtually worthless mixtures is very great, so 
we urge you to be very careful. More profit can be made from 
low-priced mixtures (containing temporary grasses) than from 
the high-priced brands such as are listed on this page. 
How to Make a Lawn 
To make a good lawn you need three basic things. First, 
reasonably good soil—the richer the better, of course, but a 
lawn is possible even on rather poor soil. In any event, a good 
seed bed free of clods should be prepared. Second, the soil needs 
some fertilizer, even after the lawn is established. For best re- 
sults a lawn should have at least one application each year and 
preferably two—spring and fall. You just can’t have a good lawn 
unless you feed it. Any fertilizer is better than none, but the 
best and cheapest in the long run is a complete plant food like 
Vigoro. (See next page for details.) Finally, you need good seed. 
That is, you should have seed of high purity and good germina- 
tion, with low weed content. You need have no fears about these 
requirements when you use Wetsel’s lawn grasses. We yield to 
no other seed house as regards quality. 
GREEN ISLAND 
There is no such thing as a “lawn” seed. 
Any lawn grass—no matter where you get 
it, or what you pay—is a mixture of grass 
seeds. Some of the component parts serve 
only to retard or prevent the growth of weeds 
until the more permanent grasses can get 
started and acquire a firm hold on the soil. 
Our Green Island lawn grass is a mixture 
that is based on the experience and technical 
information acquired over a period of 40 
years. We don’t believe it is possible to make 
a better lawn grass than our Green Island 
brand. You can—and very likely would— 
pay a great deal more for top quality lawn 
seed, but the quality of the higher priced 
seed is no better, we can assure you. 
We do not claim that Green Island is the 
best seed in the world. Such a claim would be both ridiculous and 
unethical, for there are probably hundreds of persons in the country 
who know as much as we do about what is required to make a good 
lawn. We do claim that there is none better. We know that you would 
pay a lot more for most of the best grades of seed. And remember, all 
of our mixtures are designed for this area, not for a great range of 
states where soil and climate vary so much. Lb. $1.48; 5 lbs. $6.99; 
10 lbs. $13.73; 25 lbs. $33.40. 
Wetsel’s Park Lawn Grass 
Our Park Lawn Grass is designed for large areas—a 
lot at the rear of a home or somewhat removed from the 
yard that surrounds the house, where because of the 
large space involved the cost of seeding must be held 
down to a certain level. It is made for what the name 
implies—a “‘park,’”’ where the requirements are some- 
what less than for a lawn directly connected with the 
home. As a matter of fact, it is suitable for your 
front yard; some customers use it for that purpose and 
are well pleased, although we believe that the Green 
Island is well worth the difference in price because 4 
you will get a better lawn from it in a shorter space - 
of time. Lb. 88 cts.; 5 lbs. $4.28; 10 Ibs. $8.34; 25 lbs. $20.18. 
Wetsel’s Shady Lawn Grass 
At best, it is a difficult task to hold a good stand of 
grass in shady spots, especially in places with northern 
exposure where the sun can’t even occasionally pene- 
trate. Such spots are, as you know, usually cool and 
damp. You can keep them satisfactorily covered 
and prevent the growth of unsightly weeds by fre- 
quent applications of a mixture of grasses that are 
more resistant to shade. This is especially true where 
an occasional light application of a complete plant 
food like Vigoro is given. For Vigoro positively con- 
tains every element necessary to plant life, and cer- 
tain of its elements at least partially compensate for 
the lack of sunshine. Wetsel’s Shady Lawn Grass is designed 
and compounded for the dark spots where it is so difficult to keep the 
aa even covered. Lb. $1.30; 5 Ibs. $6.42; 10 Ibs. $12.46; 25 lbs. 
30.62. 
If ordering by mail, add 25 cts. for the first pound and 4 cts. for each additional pound 
