LAYING DOWN A LAWN.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 November 1916, Page 4

LAYING DOWN A LAWN.

When it is desired to form a laffn, rite ground should be trenched as directed for the vegetable garden »;ny time during the &utumn. If the <»lot can be prepaied in March, a season nay be gained by sowing the .jrass seod during that month; the surface must be thoroughly pulverised «nd trodden down firmly. The following is a good mixture, if procurable.— Crested Dog-tail, 21Fe; Feetuca tenuifolia, 41bs; Fentuca duruscula, 2lbs; LoHqm teuuifolia perenno, 201bs; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, 31bs; Pob Nemoralifl ami Seinpervirenp Üba of each. This mixture will "uffice for half an acre, and will fora b very good lavm, and if kept cut oloso answers most soils. Special mixta e>for laying down lawns may »lso fce ft ad from any Eeedsman. Some of oui native poas and other grasses wo'ild answer admirably tor lawn purposes. If thG ground is oi a retentive nature, sowing the seeds should De deferred til' August. Commence to cut. as . *oon us the machine will act. Some orefer the scythe for the first time of catting. Roll previous to mowing; this will save the knives ot the moisir

tiEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE. ilarley, 2* to ZJ bushels; beans, 2to 2J bushels; buckwheat, or blank, 1J bushels; cabbago (drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; ovrot in drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, 1, «o 17 lbs; furze or gorse, for feed, 20 to 24 bs; do. for single-line fencing, to aow one mile, 3 to 4 lbs; kohl rabi (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbs; linseed, for flax, 2i bushels; linseed, for seed, li bush sis, lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtzel, 5 lbs; oats, 3 to 4 bushel?; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or oole, I pit; rye, 2J to 8 bushels; rya grass lif drilled, one-fourth lees), 8 to Si Vssbels; sainfoin, giant, 6 buahels; tare*, winter, 8} bushels; do., tpring, S to 2} bushels; trifoliani incarnntum, 24 Iba; turnip, 2 to 8 lbs; turnip «tabbl«, I lbi; wheat. Si to 3} bushels.