LAYING DOWN A LAWK.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 December 1916, Page 4

LAYING DOWN A LAWK.

When it is desired to form a laivn, the ground should be trenched as directed for the vegetable garden tny time during the autumn. If the />lot can be prepared in March, a n'ay be gained by sowing the seed during that month; the surface must be thoroughly pulverised t jid trodden down firmly. The foll«uing is a good mixture, if procurable.— Crested Dog-tail, 21Fs; Festuca tenaifolia, 41 bs; Featuca duruscula, 21bs; LoJium tenuifolia perenne, 201bs; White clover ,21bs; Trifolium minor, 81bs; Poa Nemoralis and Sempervirens 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 nad from any seedsman Some of our native poas and other grasses would answer admirably for lawn purposes. If thG ground is of a retentive natare, sowing the seedß should be deferred til) August. Commence to out as soon as tho machine will act. Some orefer the scythe for the first time of catting. 801 l previous to mowing; this will save the knives ot the mower. tiEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE. tfarley, Bft to 21 bushels; beans, ito 2} bushels; buckwheat, or blank, 1J bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; ovrot in drills, Bto 12 lbs; clover, to 17 lbs; furze or gorse, for feed, 20 to 84 : bs; do. for single-line fencing, to sow one mile, 8 to 4 lbs; kohl rabi (turniprooted cabbage), to transplant, 1 lb? do., drilled, 4 lbs; linseed, for flax, 2i bushels; linseed, for seed, 1J bushate, lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold wurtzel, 5 lbs; oats, Bto 4 bushel/'; parsnip, 10 lbs; rape or oole, 1 prtj rye, 2} to 8 bushels; rys grass iif drilled, one-fourth less), 8 to 1J Vssfcels; sainfoin, giant, 6 bushels; tares, winter, 9} bushels; do., spring, 9 to Si bushels; trifolium inoarnstum, 14 lbs; turnip, 2 to 8 lbs; turnip stabile, 4 lh|; wheat. Si to 3} bushels.