BEAUTIFUL LAWNS 
Beautiful lawns enhance the appearance and value 
of your property far beyond their cost. Well kept 
lawns set off your house, flowers and shrubbery as 
nothing else can and delights the eye of everyone. 
Anyone can have a good lawn by observing a 
few absolute essentials, such as proper preparation 
of soil, right kind of seed and care. Since the lawn 
is intended to be a permanent feature of the decora- 
tions of a place, its endurance or span of life is of 
the utmost importance. 
PREPARATION OF SOIL 
Grass Seeds are small and the surface bed for 
the reception of these seeds need not be more than 
one inch in depth; but since the grasses, as they 
become established, send out long lateral feeding 
roots, it is necessary that the soil area available 
for these plants should be as great as possible. This 
object can only be obtained by deep cultivation and 
thorough preparation of at least six or eight inches 
of the surface soil. 
Nature has been kinder to some soils than to 
others. Many soils are hard, clayish. There can be 
water, water everywhere, but the struggling roots 
won't have a drop to drink. The heaviest rains just 
run off in rivulets. In sandy soil the same thing 
happens. Water goes through it like a sieve. The 
thirsty roots dry up and suffocate. 
These conditions can be overcome by the use of 
good Peat Moss. Enough Peat Moss should be used 
to give the desirable loose, porous, loamy or “friable” 
texture and the ability to take up and hold enough 
moisture that is so essential to grass. 
Fertilizer should be worked into the soil accord- 
ing to the instructions of the manufacturer. We 
recommend Sacco or Vigoro. 
After the seed bed has been thoroughly and 
carefully prepared by raking, pulverizing and level- 
ling of the soil, the fertilize? and Peat well worked 
in, a heavy lawn roller should be passed over the 
surface in order to make it as smooth as possible. 
Again rake the surface lightly and scatter grass seed 
in appropriate quantities, according to the kind used. 
Again carefully rake the surface, being sure that you 
do not cover the seed over % inch and roll lightly. 
In the preparation of soil that is badly infested with 
weeds, a lapse of ten days between the heavy raking 
and pulverizing and final raking and seeding is 
essential, as this period allows the weed seeds 
worked to the surface to germinate and be killed by 
the final raking. 
SEED 
In procuring seed for establishing a lawn, too 
great care cannot be exercised. Pure seed, of high 
germination, is of great importance in securing a 
good stand of grass. Pure seed is the keynote to a 
clean lawn, provided the work of preparing the land 
has been efficiently done. Such preparation coupled 
with pure seed should give a satisfactory stand of 
grass which shall need only the usual care necessary 
to maintain a lawn after it is once established. 
Properly mixed grass seeds, due to their vary- 
ing periods of best growth, usually produce a better 
lawn than any one variety and withstand the 
weather better. 
WHEN TO PLANT A LAWN 
There is a legitimate difference of opinion in 
regard to the season at which it is best to plant a 
lawn. There are those who are very successful in 
lawn making who depend almost entirely upon fall 
planting and there are others equally successful who 
advocate the practice of spring planting. Both of 
these systems are successtul and the prospective 
lawn maker can use the time which suits his con- 
venience but should avoid sowing in the spring after 
June 10th or in the fall after about September 20th. 
HARVEY’S SPECIAL LAWN SEED 
We have used our 97 years of experience 'and 
observation in arranging a combination of Fine 
Leaved Dwarf Grasses, which are at their best dur- 
ing different months of the year, thus insuring that 
carpet of deep velvety green so much desired by 
lovers of good lawns, and is as fine in quality as 
our years of experience and careful selection of 
seeds can make if. 
Packed in 1 Ib., $1.35; 5 Ib., $6.65; 10 Ib., 
$13.10; 25 Ib., $31.25. 
HARVEY’S PARK LAWN SEED 
A very good lawn mixture that is less expensive 
and produces a coarser grass than our Special 
Mixture. 
Packed in 1 Ib., $1.05; 5 Ib., $5.15; 10 Ib., 
$10.10; 25 Ib., 24.75. 
HARVEY'S SHADY NOOK LAWN SEED 
Usually it is quite difficult to obtain a satisfac- 
tory growth of Grass under trees and in very shady 
places. For such situations we recommend this 
mixture composed of fine dwarf growing varieties 
which will do well in shady spots. Such situations 
should be watered more frequently and be fertilized 
at least three times during the season. 
Packed in 1 Ib., $1.35; 5 Ib., $6.65; 10 Ib., 
$13.10, 25 Ib., $31.25. 
UTILITY GRASS SEED 
Fast growing bright green. 
1 Ib., 70c.; 5 Ib., $3.40; 10 Ib., $6.60; 25 
Ib., $16.00. 2 
Succeeding With Seeds Since 1858 
HARVEY SEED COMPANY, Inc. 
OFFICE AND RETAIL STORE: 65-69 ELLICOTT STREET 
BUFFALO, NEW YORK 
Telephone: WAshington 0282-0283 
