. Compliments of the season. Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. JAMES VieK SEEBSMAN, KOCH ESTE"R, N. g. LAWN AND OTHER GRASS AND GLOVER SEEDS. Nothing is pleasanter about a house than a good lawn, and nothing is more easily made and kept in order by a little well directed care. To get Grass Seed up quickly and evenly, the surface must be mellow, so that it will not bake after a rain. If the soil is clayey, after sowing the Grass Seed, cover the surface with a light coating of manure, which may remain, except a little of the coarsest. Four bushels of
. Compliments of the season. Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. JAMES VieK SEEBSMAN, KOCH ESTE"R, N. g. LAWN AND OTHER GRASS AND GLOVER SEEDS. Nothing is pleasanter about a house than a good lawn, and nothing is more easily made and kept in order by a little well directed care. To get Grass Seed up quickly and evenly, the surface must be mellow, so that it will not bake after a rain. If the soil is clayey, after sowing the Grass Seed, cover the surface with a light coating of manure, which may remain, except a little of the coarsest. Four bushels of Grass Seed for an acre are required to make a good lawn in a short time; for small plats, five quarts to six square rods, or about one quart to a square rod, should be sown. Sow Grass Seed for lawns as early as possible in the spring, so as to give seed the benefit of early spring rains. Late sowing is seldom success- ful. It is better to wait until September than to sow after warm weather has com- menced. The best single kind is Kentucky Blue Grass. To four bushels of this (per acre) add White Clover and Sweet Vernal Grass, about two pounds of each, and this will make an excellent lawn. Our prepara- tion of Lawn Grass contains Blue Grass, White Clover, and Sweet Vernal Grass, and other very choice and fine Lawn Grasses, and, is, we think, the very best preparation possible for our hot and dry summers, as we have been long making experiments to ascertain this Prices on Grass and Clover Seed are liable to market change daily. At the price per bushel and peck we deliver to Express Company here or on board cars. No charge for bags or packing. By the quart and pound we prepay postage. Lawn Srass, fine prepared; per bushel, $; per peck, $; per quart _ 25 Kentucky 31 ue Srass (Poa pratensis). The best of all our Lawn Grasses. In conjunction with White Clover it forms the finest and closest turf. As a pasture grass it furnishes the most nourishing food for cattle of an
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