LAYING DOWN A LAWN

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 June 1915, Page 4

LAYING DOWN A LAWN

WEfen it is desired to form a la.vn, the ground should be trenched as directed for the vegetable garden any time during the autumn. If the plot can bo prepared in March, a season tray he gained by sowing the grass seed during that month ; the surface must be thoroughly pulverised .and trodden down firmly. The following is a good mixture, if procurable: —

Crested Dog-tail, 2lEis; Festuea tcncifolia, 41bs; tfestuoa duruscula, 21bs; Lolium tennifolia perenne, 20i,

Wliite clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, 81bs; Poa Nemoralis and Senipervirens 41bs of each. This mixture will uffice for half an acre, and will form a very good lawn, and IT kept cut close answers most soils. Special mixtures for laying down' lawns may also be nad from any seedsman. Soine of our native poas and other grasses would answer admirably tor lawn ' purposes. If the ground is of a retentive nature, sowing the seeds should be deferred till August. Commence to cut as soon as the machine will act. Some prefer the scythe for the first timo of cutting. Roll previous to mowing; this will save the knives ot tlio mow6?\