soils. Being very tender and succulent, it is not adapted for severe 

 cold situations. In appearance it is somewhat like P. pra*ensis, but 

 very different in habit and general properties. Sow (if alone) 30 Ibs. 

 to the acre. 



MEADOW FESCUE (Feslucapratensis], English blue grass ; peren- 

 nial ; height, i^ to 2 feet. One of the best of our natural grasses 

 for permanent pastures, being very early, productive, and most 

 nutritious. It is greedily eaten by all kinds of stock, and has 

 excellent fattening qualities. It succeeds best in moist soils, although 

 it does well in almost any kind of land. In some parts of North 

 America it is said to remain green under the snow throughout the 

 winter, and is not uncommonly called '' evergreen grass." Com- 

 mander Mayne refers to it thus in his book, Four Years in British 

 Columbia and Vancouver's Island : " Cattle and horses are very fond 

 of F. pratcnsis, or sweet grass, and it has a wonderful effect in fat- 

 tening them. I have seen horses on Vancouver's Island, where the 

 same grass grows, which had been turned out in the autumn, 

 brought iti in April in splendid condition and as fresh as if they had 

 been most carefully treated all the time." So\v (if alone) 40 Ibs. to 

 the acre. 



RED, OR CREEPING FKSCUE (Fcstuca rubra). Height, 2 to 3 feet. 

 A valuable grass of creeping habit, excellent for enduring severe 

 droughts. Its roots penetrate so deeply into the soil that it retains 

 its fresh green appearance when all others are burnt up. It is 

 particularly adapted for dry pastures. When just in flower it is 

 more nutritious than at an earlier period. Sow (if alone) 30 Ibs. to 

 the acre. 



COCKSFOOT, OR ORCHARD GRASS (Dadylis glo'mcmla). Perennial ; 

 height, 3 to 6 feet. Of all the pasture grasses, cocksfoot has now 

 become the greatest favourite with stock-holders and farmers in this 

 colony, and is considered a most excellent permanent pasture grass, 

 the selectors of Gippsland preferring it far before the rye grass. 

 All kinds of stock are fond of it ; sheep fatten on it, and eat it most 

 readily ; it grows well on high, ridgy land, or in shady places, and 

 stands our summer heat lirst rate, making it a valuable grass for this 

 climate ; it is very productive during the summer, say from the 

 month of September to that of February ; if it once gets a good root 

 it will stand both floods and drought; it does well on high, light 

 land, which would not be suitable for many of the other gra 

 referred to ; it yields a large quantity of herbage, and from the 

 rapidity of its growth after cutting or feeding off, it is a very desir- 

 able grass to introduce into all pastures ; it is, perhaps, the hardiest 

 of all the perennial varieties. 1 have no hesitation in recommending 

 tins as a pasture grass that must prove of the highest value to all 

 who are engaged in pastoral and agricultural pursuits. Sow on scrub 

 land 20 Ibs. to the acre. 



VAK'inrs-LKAYKi) I'Y.scrK (7*Y.s///7 lictt'ivphylln). Perennial; 

 height, 2 to 2^ feet. A native of France, where it is largely grown, 



