290 TIME OF BLOSSOMING. 



Mixture for Dry Gravels. 



Pounds. Pounds. 



Finetop 3 Creeping Soft Grass, 4 



Perennial Rye Grass, 5 



June Grass 4 



White Clover 4 



42 



Sweet-scented Vernal 2 



Tall Oat Grass, 8 



Sheep's Fescue, 4 



Red Fescue 4 



Meadow Soft Grass, 4 



For protecting banks of rivers and streams from 

 washing and wearing away, the reed canary grass and 

 the reed meadow grass will be found very effectual. 

 For preventing the drifting of light sand, beach grass 

 (Ammophila arundinacea) is one of the best. It is ex- 

 tensively used for this purpose at Provincetown, and 

 various other places along the coast. I have sown the 

 seeds of other species in such situations, but know of 

 none equal to beach grass for the purpose of fixing 

 moving sands. 



The following plants will be found to blossom in May, 

 or early in June : 



Tall Oat Grass. Melic Grass. Rough-stalked Meadow. 



Meadow Foxtail. June Grass. White Clover. 



Sweet-scented VernaL Italian Rye Grass. Black Medic. 



The following blossom later in June, and, in high lat- 

 itudes, the time may be extended to the first of July : 



Meadow Oat Grass. Sheep's Fescue. Reed Canary Grass. 



Yellow Oat Red Fescue. Orchard Grass. 



Meadow Fescue. Meadow Soft Grass. Red Clover. 



Manna Grass. Perennial Rye Grass. White Clover. 



The following blossom in July generally, though the 

 time will, of course, as in the others, be governed some- 

 what by the latitude : 



Timothy. Creeping Soft Grass. Redtop. 



Fiorin. Tufted Hair Grass. Water Spear Grass. 



