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U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY— BULLETIN NO. 84. 



B. T. GALLOWAY, Chief of Bureau. 



THE SEEDS OF THE BLUEGRASSES. 



I. THE GERMINATION, GROWING, HANDLING, AND ADULTERATION 



OF BLUEGRASS SEEDS. 



By Edgar Brown, Botanist in Charge of Seed Laboratory. 



II. DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SEEDS OF THE COMMERCIAL BLUEGRASSES 



AND THEIR IMPURITIES. 

 By F. H. HiLLMAN, Assistant Botanist, Seed Laboratory. 



Issued November 14, 1905. 



WASHINGTON: 



GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 



1905. 



