LAYING DOWN A LAWN.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 September 1916, Page 4

LAYING DOWN A LAWN.

, When it is desired to form a la.vri, the ground should be trenched aa directed for tka vegetable garden my time during the autumn. If the j>lot caTi ba prepared in March, a season iray ba gained by sowing the jyuas seed during that month; the surface must be thoroughly pulverised <4id trodden down firmly. The following ia a good mixture, if procurable:— Crested Dog-tail, 21Es; Feetuca tenaifolia, 41bs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs; Lolium tenuifolia 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 ii kept cut close answers most soils. Special mixtures I for laying down lawns may plso be aad from any Beedsman'. Some of our native poas and other grasses would answer admirably lor lawn purposes. If the ground is of a retentive natare, sowing the seeds should be deferred til. 1 August. Commence to cut as oOOD as the machine will act. Some »refer the scythe for the first time o 1 catling. Roll previous to mowing; I ™;n +i,„ br,;,T«o

SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AS ACRE. Uarley, 2* to IJ bushels; Leans, 2 to 2j bushels; buckwheat, or blank, 11 bushels; cabbage (.druiuliead), to trant plant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; in drills, Bto 12 lbs; clover, ao 17 lbs; furze or gorse, for feed, 20 to 24 ! bs; ! do. for single-line fencing, to sow one mile, 3to 4 lbs; kohl rabi (turnip- ' rooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs; linseed, for flax, 21 bushels; linseed, for seed, 1} bushels, lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkfc; mangold wurtzel, 5 lbs; oats, 3to 4 bushalp; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or cole, 1 pit; rye, 2J to 8 bushels; ry« grass (if drilled, .one-fourth lees), 2 to Si bels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 2} bushels; do., spring, 1 to 2} bushels; trifoliaia incarnatam, 14 lbs; turnip, S to 8 lbs; turnip stabbie, 4 lbi; wheat. Si to Si bushels.