LAYING DOWN A LAWK

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 December 1916, Page 4

LAYING DOWN A LAWK

When it is desired to form a lawn, lie ground should be trenched ss diroctod' for the vegetable garden ?ay time during the autumn. -If tho ;>iot can bo prepared in March, a soaaoh nay be gained ■by sowing the .yiEs scad daring that month; the surfice must be thoroughly ..nd trodden down firmly. The fc/lUn.ing is a good mixture, if procurable.— Crested Dog-tail, 21Es; Feet-uca tenuifolia, 41bs; Featuca duruscula, 2lbs; LoJium tenuifolia pereune, 201bs; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, 81bs; Poa Nemoralis and Sempervir&ns 41bs of each. This mixture will -office for half an acre, and will form a eery good lawn, and if kept cut close answers most soJs. Special mixtures for laying down lawns may ulso bo /lad from any seedsman Some of our native poas and other grasses would answer admirably tor lawn purposes, if tho ground is of a retentive natare, sowing the seeds should &e deferred til.' August. Commence to cut as soon as tho machine will act. Some »rei'er the scythe for the first time of cutting. Roll previous to mowing; this will save the knives ot the mowor. SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW A\ ACRE

tfarley, 2* to 71 bushels; beane, S to 2J bushels; buckwheat, or blank, 1J bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; ovrot in drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, 1„to 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 rabi (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb: do., drilled, 4 lbs; linseed, for flax, Si bushels; linseed, for seed, 1} bnsh»!s, lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtiel, 5 lbs; oata, 9 to 4 bush sic; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or oole, 1 p*t; rye, 21 to 8 bushels; ry« graia (if drilled, one-fourth lees), 8 to S| Visbels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tare*, winter, Si bushels; do., spring, 9 to 8} bush«ls; trifoliate incarnatam, 14 lba; turnip, 3 to A lbs; turnip stabble, 4 lb*; wheat. Si to 31 bushels