LAYING DOWN A LAWN.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 June 1916, Page 4

LAYING DOWN A LAWN.

When it is desired to form a the ground should be trenched as directed for the vegetable garden any time during the autumn. If the niot can he prepared in March, a season nay be gained by sowing the f?riuss seed during that month; the surface must be thoroughly pulverised «.nd trodden down firmly. The following is a good mixture, ii procurable:— Crested Dog-tail. 21Uis; Feetuca tenuifoiia, 4ibs; Featucu duruecula, 21bs; Lolium tenuitolia perenne, 201bs; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, 81bs; Poa Nemoralis and Sempervirens 41bs of each. This mixture will suffice for half an acre, and will form a very good lawn, and if kept cut close answers most sods. Special mixtu.es for laying down Imvns may »lso bo iiad from any seedsman. (some of <jui native poas and other glasses wo lid answer admirably lor !awu purpa>js. il the- ground is o: a retentive oat.nt-, sowing the scuds should oe deferred til' | August. Commence to cut as «oun |as tlio machine will act. Some are- [ ier the scythe tor the first time of I eufcOig. .Roll previous to motvrig, j this will save the knives ot the uuinrji. IMI'Or.sDINQ CATTLE, EIC. All trespassing cattle may be iu> [lounil -d by the occupiei of the land on v. hic 1b they are trespassing; bin. in Tie case of untenced land, the occj p;er is not entitled to cuaim any damages oxcept fees for driving, or 'o' giving notice of the detention ji such cattle, as provided in '.lie Second ! Schedule. tiEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW *\ ACRE. rJarley, 2* to 2J bushels; beams, 3 to 2J bushels; buckwheat, or biank, li bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkga; c«vrot in drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, 1,. to 17 lbs; furze or gorse, for feed, 20 to 24 : bs; do. for single-line fencing, to sow one mile, 3 to 4 lbs; kohl rabi (turniprooted. cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs; linseed, for flax, 2$ bushels; linseed, for seed, li bushels, lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, IS lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtzel, 5 lbs; oate, 3 to 4 bushel?; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or cole, 1 pit; rye, 2J to 8 bushels; rys grass of drilled, one-fourth lees), 2 to 2J lisbels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 2} bushels; do., spring, 3 to 2} bushels; trifoliaia incaraatam, 24 lbs; turnip, 3 to 8 lbs; tnrnip *tnbbl«, 4 lbi; wheat- 2J to 2} bnshela