BY -----------.

Your article on Lawn Grass Mixtures is a little obscure as to intent. But taking it for granted, from the tone of your article, that you desire to warn your readers against purchasing lawn grass mixtures at seed stores, for fear of being, to use the mildest term, overcharged; I wish to say to you that you do the honest seedsman and your readers a great injustice. People, particularly editors, should be careful how they write or speak of matters, of which they know little or nothing. Because Prof. Beal found some red top in a mixture that he purchased, is it equitable to decide that all lawn grass mixtures are the same? You would think it a gross injustice if, because some unscrupulous nurseryman had deceived his customers, you, Thos. Meehan, should be rated in the same category. How did Prof. Beal decide that Herds grass was in the mixture? Did he pick out the seeds and then plant them? In that way only could he decide positively. If he sowed the mixture and found Red top growing in his lot, that would not decide it, as the seed may have been already in the ground. I believe very few respectable seedsmen put Herds grass in their lawn mixture.

Of my own knowledge I can state that there is not now and never has been, during the more than 40 years that I have been connected with the house of---------, any Red top grass seed in any lawn mixture sold by this house. Our mixture has always consisted of Kentucky Blue, Green grass, which is the same seed grown in this section, a little Perennial Rye grass, Sweet vernal grass, and White clover, each one of first quality sold for a number of years past at $3.50 per bushel of 15 lbs., and all who purchase that mixture get the worth of their money, the Gardeners' Monthly to the contrary notwithstanding. Philadelphia.

[Our only intent was to emphasize the point often made in our magazine, and never objected to by our correspondent or any one, that one kind of grass makes a better lawn than the acutest mixture.

As to reflecting on the honor, integrity, or fair dealing of such an honorable firm as the---------, such an idea could enter nobody's head. The people evidently prefer mixtures. They pay more for mixtures than for one single kind of grass. They ought to pay more, because there has been the labor and trouble of all the extra work. If people will have it, there can be no reason why they should not be supplied with it, and charged accordingly.