LAYING DOWN A LAWN.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 November 1916, Page 4

LAYING DOWN A LAWN.

When it 16 deeirod to icrui a la/7n, ihe ground should be trenched a£ directed for the vegotatile garden my titoe during the autumn. If the piot can bo prepared iu March, a season :! ay bo gained by Bowing the £Vi&n sfred during that month; the surfice must be thoroughly pu!veriaf»H ..n<i trodden down firmly. The folW,«fln; is a good mixture, it procurable.— Crested Dog-tail, 2ibe; Fes+uca tenai folio, 41bs; Festuca duruscula, 21bs, Lo.lium touuifoliii pereune, -201ba, White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, Slbs; Poa Neinoralis and Seinpwvirpnfc llbs of cacti. This mixture vrlit office tor half in aero, and will form a eery gw] las", and ii kept cut eloso aP6»t«>:*-■ luost &g.lb. fc'peeia! mixtu.es ;'nr 1-ij lug down la was way »lso bo Jiftti from any seedsman. tsome of ■lativo poas aud other grasses wo lid answer admirably lor lawn purposes.

it the- ground is of a retentive nat.ire. sowing tho seeds should of. deforred til' August. Commence to out as sooji as tho machino svill act. Some »reior the scythe for the tirst time o ( cutting. Roll previous to mowi-ig; this wili save the knives ot the m<)'.v>r SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW A\" ACRE.

Uarley, 2* to Z| bushels; beams, 3 to 2J bushels; buckwheat, or blank, li bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; crvrot in drills, 8 to 12 Ids; clover, 1* eo 17 lbs; furze or gorse, for feed, 20 to 24 be; do. for eingle-line fencing, to sow ono aiile, 8 to 4 lbs; kohl rati (turnip - rooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 ib»; linse«d, {or Sax, 2$ buchels; lins««d, for seed, li bus hale, lucerne, broudcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtzel, 5 lbs; oats, 3to 4 bushels; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or'cold, i pit; rye, Si to 8 bushels; r;e grass lit drilled, one-fourth lees), 2 to 2} bels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tare*, winter, 2J busbote; do., apring, 2 to Si bushels; tiifoliaoi inc&raatum, S-4 lbs; turnip, 3 to * lbs; turnip stobblfi., 4 lbi; wheat. 2i to 3} btish«lx