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nent of Europe it was cultivated a few years later. A further 

 chapter of its history is given by Flint:* "It is frequently 

 called Herd's grass in New England and New York, and this 

 was the original name under which it was cultivated. The name 

 was derived from a man of that name who, according to Jared 

 Elliott, found it growing wild in a swamp in Piscataqua, N. H., 



Fig. 150. Timothy, PhUum pratense. The best meadow grass for Iowa, and a gen- 

 eral favorite among farmers. (F. Lamson-Scribner. Div. Agrost. U. S. Dept. Agrl ) 



more than a century and a half ago, and began to cultivate it. 

 In Pennsylvania and states further south this name is applied 

 to Agrostis vulgaris, or the red top of New England." Timothy 

 is pre-eminently the grass grown in this state for meadow pur- 

 poses. No other grass stands in such, high favor as does this. 

 It is highly productive, stands drouth well, and is not subject 



*Fllnt. Grasses ;ind Forage Plants. 34. (Rev. Ed.) 



