The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-09-22
SEEDS THAT REFUSE TO GROW
SAMPLES OF THE COMPLAINTS
MADE TO THE DEALERS.


Gsrdeuer -Crsscs IN GardeninE
The seed store salesman chung TO hi,
politeness. but his voice sounded weary
The short. fat man before him was sputter-
ing with indignation and emphasizing
his statements by pounding the counter.
Yes. air. he said. In clarion tones. your
goods are n color. air. can't raise any
thing from them. I bought bushels OF
your potatoes and I didn't rai-s q barrel
from them No. SIR. not a barrel
The bruised worm behind tho counter
turned gently.
Now, my dear sir he said In a soothing
voice. I'm afraid YOU expect too much
Of our goods. Did any Of our young men
tell YOU that our potatoes. even with tho
hest 81 care. would raise barrlsf"
The customer lost the point. He was
ton deeply engros-ed In his own trbu
lations o. have a line out for poor jokes.
He would probably Ire protesting vet N
10 had MT har.s4~A - glance at the clock
and 800 that he must run Ia catch his ferry
boat when he had departed. scattering
fragments % complaint In regard % summer
squash as he ran. tie salesman mopped
hi- brow
We'll. he said. with an effort at optimism
1t might l- worse This might be lawn
grass this tine
you have trouble about your lawn grass
-aed'- asked a SrS reporter.
-Trouble2- The tone was eloquent.
Trouble, WHY hat word doesn't express
Il Every man who can't work up a velNety
blue grass turf In two months, laws tn.
failure to our grass sced. He wan,s one 81
thos emerald velvet swards YOU read about
In English novels, and II he doesn't get u
-. a.. ...l a. -. lluWtua NAE a
Weather and water and soil and rolling
and wedding haven't anything 10 do with
that gra--. The -.-ed was all wrong II"
digs M IieC'S Of turf and bunche- of weeds
and bfings them To town To- show W. u"
YOU call that lawn gra-s'' he asks, waN ng
a istful u p~lanta,n AZ W That's what your
blank,ty blank gas -ed rai-'s
We don't can Il grass, but that doesn't
spotho him. Th"rr'r uo u-' IN attempting
20 prove 10 him hat the plantain got into
hi lawn h. some accidental way Tie be
h.ycs W. miNed p~laniain with that Sod Just
ON puf po-' to do him. It's queer how cul-
'ivating a lawn Affects a mans reason:
Lawn growing goes IN with religion ana
politicr No man can he relied upon Tor
sanity OF thuse THREE subjects.
And the women are worse. Bless YOU,
the women are enough To drive us wild
with their lawns For about three months
of a." wear the sight Of a woman coming
in through that front door with a huhch
81 ~pm"thing IN her hand - enough To
giNp me- u nervous chill. MY NE nom
NAV To August l. orc hong nightmare Of
lawn grass One woman came IN TINS
summer with an arilful OF wild mustard
Shc said she suwel our grass Sod ana mat
what cain" up | offered her VI n
seed fer every mustard sc"d she or any
ole clsn could find in IN" Kind OF s'Td
sold her. hut that only madc her more
angry She said that ] was insulting
and thai ahe had supposed We were a r"put-
able firm
Before she got out 81 the shop another
woman turned up with fine specimens -
twenty different kinds Of weeds, ali grown
on a gas pLot 81 hy 20 from our hes sc~!.
She wa- Narcasi Ic whitening She lrr
mo limp The neat law two women arrived
togcthe- They we're next door ncighlors,
They bought -e+sl together and one raised
dog tcnuel white the other had a mAgnif-
cont cr,p Of ~dandelions
Vow az n matter IL fact. We know alb
solutclv what oar grass se~h " i, u ana
Tyy,sI down 60 4 seed II there's a weed
IN Il. We know wha, that weed is We
know rhc .xact purity 81 every grade We
sell " any one sayr there are -s-Nds ~ n
c-rtcin weed in our grass SOD ! can say
yes or no With authority Sometimes I
have to Nay Yes, bat It il Ira inhnitesimal
uropprtipu and cen pive the per cent.
. The man who isn't in this business hns no /,
idea of the amount II care and trouble
cxtsrd.d upon grass seed. by a firm like
his We have orr own AnNlNtls. nav We 7
do not trust uuI own Judgment Prof
S,cl Ter ~ Switzerland il ackno~ ledg.d -
10 tho highest hority in the world uvon
...ai uuriiv He IL enplny@l hy the Swiss
Gny,,nm.nt. but seed IL sent 10 him from
ali over IN. world Thorough test samples
all our grass -.-d ~ To- him He makes
IA. auslvsis. givtr "a his formula and his
pr1rantc.
Herr. FOR instance. - his last lisi You
-. me purity ard the Y erm power ara both
given down 10 "A fraction Suppose We buy
NJ ton # grass seed from sumC firm Prof
~tsbl.~'s guarantee cpfnes with u and hs
,ualy.t. Then ~ analyze II ourselves,
and n H. sent hack To him To- 49,. II, on analv-
.is. il agrees with IN. hrt formula, or n
il ia. l-s.n dpctnrpI
Vow. witt such precautions taken. YOU
can -. thai u. arr, In = tnsitiou 10 make
ustiye stat. u.nts at-,u, the purity Of
lawn grass -,d. but bless your heart
hat DOESN'T have any ,Tecr upon the proplr
who rais. Wild mustard and dsnds hons.
Argument, j. wastnd on them They H.
pey, that our -cd IL lad. and we arr wor~,
Ue wired ina urrspiring brow again
is dcm6raIyins 20 he very much in "a Tlest
on A muquy dav.
You mus, hear a good many hard hck
stories. suggested the reporter
Hard LnrE stories Nhv tho cir ~ nn
NJ them down h.,r Put after ali. there
.-nt much I1rk in faru,iny and hardening