Identifier: manualofeverythi18pete_0 (find matches)
Title: Manual of everything for the garden : 1894
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Peter Henderson & Co Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seed industry and trade Catalogs Seeds Catalogs Flowers Seeds Catalogs Plants, Ornamental Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: New York : Peter Henderson & Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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0F alL the charming feat- ~.ures which contributedto the grandeur of the WORLDS COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION, not one was so universally admired as were the ~-*^S*S£ beautiful lawns sown with The Henderson Lawn Grass. In that great White City it was impossible for everyone to examine all the exhibits, but the velvety lawns were always before the multitudes and were the subject of more flattering encomiums than any single one of the magnificent sights. Where the work of construction rendered it possible, the lawns were sown in the Fall of 1892, but in most instances it was necessary to wait until Spring, and several of them were not sown until April, just a few days before the opening of the Fair, yet within six weeks from time of sowing, the ground was transformed into velvety lawns, which, notwithstanding the long-continued drought of last Summer, retained their verdure throughout the entire season until the close of the Fair. The above view shows one of our Lawns on the lagoon slope, in fr

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