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Outdoor Problems of the Householder: Canadian

These are the standard lawn grasses but others as Canadian blue grass, the fescue grasses, wood meadow grass and sweet vernal grass are useful for special purposes. OUTDOOR PROBLEMS OF THE HOUSEHOLDER 243 Shady Nook Mixtures. Rhode Island bent, creeping bent and Canadian blue grass do well in the shade and so do red fescue and sheep fescue, especially if used in mixtures under heavy seeding. The best plan is to try a mixture of a number of these grasses and seed heavily. Only the grass or grasses which prove best adapted to the location will survive.

Kentucky blue grass stands shade well and mixed with wood meadow grass makes perhaps the best of all shade mixtures, but as the latter is very high in price, its use in recent years has been very limited.

In seeding a lawn it is sound economy to procure the best select or recleaned seeds and to seed heavily.