PLANTING AND SEEDING SEASONS : Page 20

Lawns. The spring seeding season for lawn grass starts in theLower Austral Zone in February, about the middle of the month, andcontinues to May 1st, but may be shut off by the advent of hot weatheras early as March 1st. As one goes farther north, the season does notlengthen very much, but merely opens later, extending from aboutApril 15th to June 1st. Thus, this seeding season, to a great extent,overlaps the planting season and cannot be protracted past the closingdate for planting without great risk of the bad effect of hot weather onthe young grass. The autumn season starts in the North as early asAugust 1st, and closes not later than October 1st, but generally by the