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Outdoor Problems of the Householder: Rhode

It is adapted to most parts of the United States. Where conditions are not ideally adapted to blue grassas, for example, on lighter soils-a better lawn may be secured by the admixture of other grasses as Rhode Island red top. The preferred mixture in most localities is two parts by weight of Kentucky blue grass, to one of red top. This mixture is a leader with the principal seedsmen.

White clover seed is often added, as a nurse crop, to protect the young grasses the first year. It springs up quickly and makes a good lawn, but is soon crowded out under close cutting in the presence of a good stand of the best lawn grasses. On very light land Rhode Island bent may be substituted for Kentucky blue grass in the above mixture.