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the Atlantic to the Pacific. It is very early and very prolific, having been cut three 

 times in the aeason. On 4th June the bed was covered with a gi-owth of delicate green 

 succulent and very leafy shoots 3 feet 3 inches in height, which weighed 120 lbs. to 

 sq. rod. On the same day fall rye was only 2 feet 6 inches in height. 



On 5th August the same plot was cut again and gave 50 lbs. to the square rod. 

 On 16th October it was cut again and gave 23 lbs. of grass. Another plot of the 

 Bame grass left until the seed was ripe on 11th July was over 5 feet high and gave 

 160 lbs. of grass. This plot did not recover so soon after cutting, but was well 

 covered with greeu shoots by September. This I believe will be found a valuable 

 grass under cultivation and in low meadows. The root is perennial and extends by 

 running root stocks. 



33. Fhleum pratense, L, (Timothy. Herd's grass.) Seed from Major Walker of 

 Calgary, N.-W. T. Sown spring of 1889. Speared 16th June 1890, Flowered Ist 

 July. Eipe 29th July. This well-known and valuable grass is familiar to all 

 farmers. It is not indigenous in Canada ; but is now well established wherever 

 roads or railways have penetrated. It is hoped that the above form from the Kocky 

 Mountains may prove hardier for the North-West than the ordinary form. 



34. Fhleum alpinum, It. (Alpine Timothy). Seed collected by Dr. G-. M. Dawson 

 on Mount Tod, B. C. (Alt. 5,500 feet). Sown April, 1889 ; transplanted May, 1889. 

 Speared 12th June. Eipe, 3rd July. Nearly the whole of this bed flowered and then 

 died off. Some few plants however threw up one or two weak shoots in September 



1889, and flowered again in 1890 before dying. It is a smaller and less valuable 

 grass than P. pratense. 



35. Poa compressa, L. (Wire grass. Flat-stemmed meadow-grass). Plants 

 collected on rocky pasture in 1889. Divided in autumn of 1890 and planted in 

 present bed. This hardy and nutritious grass, although it starts early in the spring 

 ^nd keeps green longer than most native grasses in the autumn, does not produce 

 enough fodder to make it worth cultivating except upon dry and rocky pastures 

 where few grasses will grow. For such localities it is one of the best. 



36. Poa Nevademis, Vasey. (Nevada Bunch Grass). Seed from Whitewood, 

 N.-W. T. Sown March, 1888, flowered freely in 1889. Young plants transplanted 

 from old to present bed 15th June, 1890. Nearly all destroyed by Aphides, and did 

 not flower. Plants began to recover about 1st September. This species seems to be 

 peculiarly susceptible to attack by Aphides. When grown in the forcing house in 

 1888 it was the only grass attacked by them, and in the open air last year it was 

 again the only plot injured by these insects. This is probably a grass of no agri- 

 cultural value. Height of leaves 3 inches, stems 1 foot. 



37. Poa pratensis, L. (June Grass. Kentucky Blue Grass) Form 1. (Plate V.) 

 Seed from Major Walker, of Calgary. Seed sown March, 1889 ; speared 2nd June, 



1890. Flowered 12th June. Eipe 4th July. This is a tall form with wide leaves. 

 The original plants from which the seed was taken measured 3 feet 5 inches in 

 height. 



38. Poa pratensis, L. Form 2. Seed from Glacier, B.C. Sown 15th March, 1890. 

 Transplanted June, 1890. A leafy free-growing form, very dark green. By the end 

 of the season the plot was a close sod which continued growing until winter. 



39. Poa pratensis, Jj. Form 3. Seed from Forres, N.W.T. Sown spring of 

 1888. Flowered June, 1889. Eoots divided and planted in present bed Ist June, 

 1890. Speared 12th June. Flowered 20th June. Eipe 4th July. Cut down 2 Ist 

 July. Did not spring up again till September. This is a wide-leaved coarse variety 

 with dark leaves and very wide-spreading and few underground stems. It was 

 severely attacked by the American Frit Fly and Wheat-Stem Maggot, and mildewed 

 badly in October. I cannot separate this botanically from other forms of Poa pra- 

 tensis, but agriculturally this is a poor grass of no value, while the others are all 

 very good. This ditfei-ence between varieties of the same species grown under the 

 same conditions, may explain the various opinions so often expressed concerning 

 Kentucky Blue Grass. 



