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grow in our southern states. In this latitude its principal 

 requirement is a rich soil, and next is shade and water in dry 

 weather. It forms a deep green, dense, and permanent turf 

 and is worth taking trouble to secure (see article, The Lawn 

 Problem in the South, in this issue for treatment of blue 

 grass). In Chapel Hill blue grass occurs spontaneously to a 

 considerable extent in good soil by walks, roads, in orchards, 

 open places, back yards, shaded lawns, etc. It makes very 

 early growth in spring and by March it probably furnishes 

 the greater part of the green grass growth that has appeared. 

 In all well shaded lawns, such as in the Alexander Place, the 

 McRae Place, the old Martin Place, etc., the blue grass is 

 the principal grass and maintains itself without attention, 

 but unless well shaded it must be watered in dry hot weather 

 or it will disappear. Unless heavily shaded a very fertile 

 soil is of prime importance with blue grass. 



Orciiaijd (xkass {Daciylis cjlomerata). 



This large grass makes tall green tufts that are conspicu- 

 ous by the last of March. It much prefers shaded places and 

 is rather common in fertile soil by paths and roads and in 

 waste places. It forms most of the growth in the low depres- 

 sion west of the old Mangum Place. It is not suited for lawn 

 grass on account of the large separate tufts it makes, but is 

 valuable for hay or grazing in open or shaded places. It 

 was one of the three grasses sown on Glenn Burnie hills in 

 the fall of 1012 and it has now become well established there 

 and forms most of the forage. It hardly made any show 

 the first summer as it is of slow growth at first. 



Tall Mkadow Oat Grass {Arrhenatherum elatius). 



This was planted by me as one of the four constituents on 

 my hillside hay fields at Glenn Burnie Farm. The others 

 were Italian rye grass,, orchard grass and red clover. The 

 ground was gravelly clay and not very rich. The oat grass 

 did not take very well and formed only a small part of the 

 first summer cutting (101,'i). The Bye grass did much bet- 

 ter and formed the bulk of the cutting. The orchard grass 

 hardly showed uj) ;it nil the first sumincr, l)ut lias since been 



