LAYING DOWN A LAWN.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 December 1916, Page 4

LAYING DOWN A LAWN.

When it is desired to forui a lawn, tiie ground should be trenched as directed for tho vegetable garden itny time during the autumn. If the ;»lot can bo prepared in March, a season nay he gained by sowing the .jriss seod during that month; the surfice must be thoroughly pulverised .Jid trodden down firmly. The folWiing; is a good mixture, if procurable.— Crested Dog-tail, 21Fs; Fes+uca tenaifolia, 41bs; Fentuca duruscula, 2lbsj Lolium tenuifolia perenne, SOlbs; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, 81bs; Poa Neinoralis and Semper Fir ens 41bs of eacß. This mixture will suffice for half an acre, and will form a very good lawn, and if kept out close answers most soils. Special mixtures for laying down lawns may »lso be jiad from any seedsman. Some of oar native poas and other grasses would answer admirably tor lawn purposes, if the ground is or a retentive nature, sowing the seeds should be deferred til) August.. Commence to cut as <*oon as tho machine will act. Some #refer the Bcythe for the first time of catting. Roll previous to mowing; this will save the knives ot the mowor. dEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE. liar ley, 2* to Z| bushels; beans, 3 to 2J bushels; buckwheat, or blank, bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; ovrot in drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, 1* tio 17 lbs; furze or gorse, for feed, 20 to 24 'bs; do. for single-line fencing, to sow one mile, 3 to 4 lbs; kohl rati (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 lbB; linseed, for flax, 24 bushels; linseed, for seed, IJ bushsls, lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtzel, 5 lbs; oata, 3 to 4 bushelp; parsnip. 10 lbs; rape or cole, 1 pit; rye, to 8 bushels; ry« grata U* drilled, one-fourth lees), 9 to Si Vxsbels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tare*, winter, 2} bushels; do., ipring, 8 to 2J bushels; trifoliuia incaroatom, 14 lb*; turnip, 3 to * lbs; turnip ttabWe, 4 lb*; wheat- Si to 3| bushels.