LAYING DOWN A LAWN

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 December 1916, Page 4

LAYING DOWN A LAWN

When it is desired to form a lawn, ihe ground should be trenched sa directed for the vegetable garden say time during the autumn. li the "lot can be prepared in March, a season aay be gained by sowing the .sru&s scad during that month; the surf jo? must, be thoroughly pulverised «4id trodden down firmly. The folHiviing is a good mixture, if procurable.— Crested Dog-tail, 21Fs; Festuca tenuifolia, 41 bs; Fettuca duruscula, 21bs ; Lolium tenuifolia perenne, SOlbs; White clover ,21bs; Trifoliuni minor, 81bs; Poa Nemoralis and Sempervirens libs of each. This mixture will suffice for half an aero, and will form a very good lawn, and if kept oul: close answers most soils. Special mixtures for laying down lawns may »lso be aad from any seedsman Some of our native poas and other grasses would answer admirably for lawn purposes. If the ground is or a retentive natare, sowing the seeds should be deferred til. 1 August. Commence to cut .as <*)on as .tho machine will act. Some arefer the scythe for the first time of cutting. 801 l previous to mowing; thi3 will save tho knives ot the mo war. SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE. Barley, 2* to 2| bushels; beans, 3 to 2i bushels; buckwheat, or blank, bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; ovrot in drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, 1., to 17 lbs; furjse or gorse, for feed, 20 tb 24 'bs; do. for single-line fencing, to sow one mile, 3to 4 lbs; kohl rabi (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb: do., drilled, 4 lbs; linseed, for flax, 2| bushels; linsoed, for seed, 1J bushels, luoerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtael, 5 lbs; oats, 3 to 4 bu&help; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or oole, 1 prt; rye, 2) to 8 bushels; rvt grass Cif drilled, one-fourtb lees), 2 to 2} labels ; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; t»r-se, winter, 2) bushels; do., spring, 2 to 21 bushels; trifoliniu incarnatnm, 84 lb»; turnip, 2 to * lbo; turnip «tab\jl«., 4 Ibi; wheat. to 2) boshela