LAYING DOWN A LAWN

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 October 1916, Page 4

LAYING DOWN A LAWN

When it is desired to form a la/m x the ground should be trench**! as direoi/ed lor me vegotaoie gurdeu ».uy time during the autumn. If tho j'lot can be prepared in March, a soaaon may be gained by sowing the seed during that month; the surfooe must be thoroughly pulverised .aid trodden down firmly. The following is a good mixture, if procurable:— Crested Dog-tail, 21Fs; Festuca ten uifolia, 41bs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs j Lolium tenuifolia perenne, 201b«; White clover ,21bsj Trifolium minor, Slbs; Poa Neuaoralis and Sempervirens

libs of each. This mixture will "■uftice lor half an acre, and will form a very good lawn, and if kept cut close answers most sods. Special mixtu.es for laying down lawns may »lso bo nad from any Beedsman. Some of our native poas and other grasses woild answer admirably lor lawn purposes.

it thG ground is oi a retentive natare, soivir.g tho seeds should De deferred til. 1

August. Commonce to cut as as the machine will act. Some ire"ier the scythe for the tirst time j' cjtiing. Roll previous to mowing, 1 ins will save the kniv<« ot the rnotrjt SEEDd REQCIRED TO SOW AN ACRE. rfarley, 2* to SJ bushels; beans, 3 to bushels; buckwheat, or biank, 11 bushels; cabbago (.drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; (vvrot in drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, 1. eo 17 lbs; furze or gorse, for feed, 20 to 24 'bs; do. for single-line tencing, to sow one mile, 3 to i lbs; kohl rAbi (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs; linseed, for flax, 2} bushels; linseed, for seed, 1} bushals, lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtecl, 5 lbs; oats, 3 to 4 buslnle; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or oole, 1 pit; '■ye, 2J to 8 bushels; rys grata (if

trilled, one-fourth lees), 3 to 3| \x»• eels; sainfoin, giant, 6 bushels; tares, winter, bushels; do., spring, 3 to 2) bushels; trifoliate incarnatam, 94 lbs; turnip, 3 to 8 lbs; turnip stabble, I lb»; wheat. Si to £} ousbcla