LAYING DOWN A LAWN.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 November 1916, Page 4

LAYING DOWN A LAWN.

When it is daeired to form a lawn, 'he ground should bo trenched as directed for the vegetable garden *:uy time during the autumn. If the i»iot can be prepared in March, a season nay be gained by sowing the .triss wad daring that month; the surf*** must be thoroughly pulverised «.nd trodden down firmly. The following is a good mixture, if procurable.— Crested Dog-tail, 2155; Festuca tenaifolia, 41bs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs; LoJiurn teuuitolia perenne, 201bs; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, Bibs; Poa Neuioralis and Sempcmrans libs of each. This mixture will office for half an acre, and will terra h very good lawn, and if kept out olosi* answers nioet scl'b. Special mixta for laying down lawns va;ty »!so be cad from any seedsman. Some of out native poas and other grasses wo'ild . answer admirably tor lawn purposes, it thG ground is oi a retentive nature, sowing the seeds should De deferred til' August. Commence to cut as <won as the machine will act. Some ureter the scythe for the first time of cutting. .Roll previous to mowiig; this will save the knivea ot the mo#or

SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW A\ ACRE. tJarley, 2* to 2| bushels; beans, 3 to 2| bushels; buckwheat, or blank, IJ bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; ovrot in drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, I. to 17 lbs; furze or gorse, for feed, 20 'to 24 : l»; do. for single-line fencing, to sow one mile, 8 to 4 lbs; kohl rabi (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs-, linseed, for flax, 2i bushels; linseed, for seed, 1} bushals, lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbe; do., drilled, 15 lba; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurttel, 5 ILb ; oats, 3to 4 bush elf ; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or cole, i p*t; rye, 21 to i bushels; ry« grais lif drilled, one-fourth less), 2 to 2i \mbels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tar«i, srintor, li bushels; do., spring, 3 to 2J bush«ls; trifolin.iu incarnatum, S4 'bB; turnip, 8 to 8 lbe; taraip *tabbl«. i lb*; wheat- Si to 3J fcnsbela