314 GRASSES FOR THE LAWN. 



Sold in bulk by New York. 



Table showing the proportions : 



June Grass, or Kentucky Blue Grass, Poa prcftensis, L., in chaff 648 



Red Top, Brown or Creeping Bent, Agrostis. 528 



WhiteClover, Trifolium repens L. , clean 158 



Timothy, Phleum pratense, L., clean 38 



Ergot of Agrostis, or Red Top, (infested with fungus) 10 



Mixed and containing traces of the following: 



Eggs of insects. 



Dung of insects. 



Dead insects. 



Panic Grass, Panieum (a weed). 



Chick weed. 



Shepherd's Purse, Capsella Bursa-^pastoris, Moench (a weed). 



Dock, Rumex (a weed). 



Orchard Grass or Cock's Foot, Dactylis glomerata, L. 



Eleocharis, a rush or grass-like plant (a weed). 



Round Leaved Mallow, Malva rotundifolia. L. (a weed). 



This is sold for $5 per bushel, and is a good mixture, omitting 

 the seed of Timothy and the weeds. The house claims to have 

 have sold 70,000 packages in 1885. The same house offers June 

 grass for $2.25, and Bent grass for 4 per bushel. 



THE "HENDERSON" LAWN GRASS SEED. 

 Sold by New York. 



Table showing the proportions : 



Brown or Creeping Bent or Red Top, Agrostis, in chaff 880 



June Grass or Kentucky Blue Grass, Poa pratensis, L., in chaff 715 



White Clover, Trifolium repens, L. , clean 1 20 - 



Sheep's or Hard Fescue, Festuca ovina or var. duriuscula, L. , in chaff 110 



Perennial Rye Grass, Lolium peren ne, L. , in chaff 95 



Sweet Vernal, Anthoxanthum odoratum, L., var. PuelH, in chaff-- 17 

 Timothy, Phleum pratense, L., clean _ 10 



A few seeds of Chickweed, some Panieum, Mallow, Malva rotundifolia, 

 L., (a weed), Ergot, some other weeds not recognized. 



This is much like the Central Park lawn grass previously no- 

 ticed. This one contains some seeds of small fescues apparently 



