BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT. 

 PLATS AT WALTON. 



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Below a plan of the plats is shown as made in the spring of 1888. The 

 land had been cleared and fenced. It was well plowed, and harrowed and 

 rolled; the rolling was done after the seeds were sown. The land appears 

 to be of even quality, and is nearly level. From May 7 to August 4, 1888, 

 was a very dry season ; the spring of 1889 was moister and favorable for the 

 starting of seeds. During the year 1888 no fertilizers of any kind were 

 used. The eight sorts sown in three places were fowl meadow grass, orchard 

 grass, Timothy, tall oat grass, perennial rye grass, meadow foxtail, red 

 clover, and mammoth clover. 



On October 18, 1888, the following notes were made : No. 1, a very lit- 

 tle small grass seen ; No. 2, rather small, mostly thick enough, two or three 

 inches high ; No. 3, nice and even, though short ; Nos. 4, 6, 8, look well, 

 three inches high; No. 5, nothing seen of seeds sown; No. 7, thin, spotted, 

 slim, some stems six inches high ; No. 9, left without cultivation ; No. 10, 

 pale, thin, large roots; No. 11, a poor catch, some of it has gone to seed; 

 No. 12, thicker and better than red clover; No. 13, a very small crop left 

 and land sown to orchard grass late in August ; No. 14, exceedingly thin, a 

 very poor catch, probably the seed was poor; No. 15, better than Timothy, 



