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Others which are most objectionable are orchard grass, a coarse, bunchy grass, 

 timothy, which is too coarse and short lived, perennial rye grass, which just 

 takes the cream of the soil for a few years and then dies out. 



FINE MIXED LAWN GRASS. 



Sold ill Milk by D. M. Ferry & (Jo., Detroit, Mirli. 



Table showing the proportions : 



June grass, or Kentucky blue grass, Poa pratensis, L., in chaff- 637 



Perennial rye grass, Lolium perenne, L., in chaff 470 



Timothy, Phleum pratense, L. , clean 340 



White clover, Trifolium p?-afense, h., clean _. 220 



Red Top, Brown or Creeping Bent, Agrostis, in chaff. 217 



Mixed and containing traces of the following : 15 



Velvet Grass, Holcus lanatus, L., in chaff (a weed). 



Orchard Grass, Cock's Foot, DactyUs ghmerata, L., in chaff. 



Chess, Bromus, some species. (A weed). 



Crowfoot, Rajiunculus hulbosus {?) (a weed). 



Dock, Rumex (a Aveed). 



Lance-leaved Plantain, Plaiitago lanceolata, L., (a weed). 



Shepherd's Purse, Capsella Bursa-pastoris, Moench. (A weed). 



This mixture is sold at 50 cents per pound, or 14 per bushel, and is not so 

 good as the Chicago parks mixture noticed above, because it contains a much 

 smaller proportion of June grass and a much larger propoition of perennial 

 rye grass and timothy. 



flint's lawn grass. 

 Sold hy D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, Mich. 



Table showing the proportions : 



Perennial Rye Grass, Lolium perenne, L., in chaff ^'^^ 



Sheep's Fescue and Hard Fescue, seeds much alike, Festuca ovina and 



var. duriuscula, L 295 



June Grass, or Kentucky Blue Grass, Poa jjratensis, L., in chaff 255 



White Clover, Trifolinm repens, L., clean 227 



Red or Mammoth Clover, Trif alum jrratense or inedium, L., clean 130 



Timothy, Phleum pratense, L., clean 105 



Meadow Foxtail, A lopecurus pratensis, L. , in chaff - 103 



Italian Rye Grass, Lolium perenne, var. Italicum, in chaff' 47 



Sweet Vernal, Anthoxanthum odoratum, L., in chaff 35 



Hair Grass, Aira flexuosa, L., in chaff" (a weed) 25 



€haff - 80 



Mixed seeds containing traces of the following. - 3f» 



Chess, Bromus (a weed). Fescue, (species?) Velvet Grass (a weed). Self 

 Heal, Brunella (a weed). Sorrel, Rumex (a weed). Ribbed Grass, Plantago 



lanceolota, L. (a weed). Chickweed (a weed). Nonesuch, Medicago lupu- 

 lina, L. A sedge, Carex. Two or three others not recognized. 



This mixture is sold at per quart or per bushel. 



In addition to the objections made to the two former mixtures are the 

 following : 



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