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sive wet. It grows best in a climate moist and cool, 

 moister than much of the climate of the Mississippi 

 basin and cooler than that of the southern and south- 

 western states, unless in such portions of the same as 

 are elevated. It is also a grass that succeeds well under 

 irrigation, hence there may yet be a place for it in the 

 mountains of the West, although from the nature of the 

 production there that place is likely to be limited. 



This grass has been grown more or less in the New 

 England states and those adjacent and its adaptation for 

 these has been commended. Notwithstanding it has 

 been but little grown in a large way. The inference 

 would seem just, therefore, that it is not more extensive- 

 ly grown for the reason that some other grasses, notably 

 blue grass, has been found better adapted to the condi- 

 tions in these states. The assumption will also proba- 

 bly be found correct that in the elevated areas of the 

 Allegheny mountain region southward from New Eng- 

 land it may be made to render good service in perma- 

 nent pastures. West of the Cascade mountains it should 

 also grow well in Washington and Oregon. In other 

 parts of the United States the conditions would seem 

 to be of a character not highly favorable to the growth 

 of this grass. 



In Canada it is not likely to come into much promi- 

 nence. It will grow reasonably well in Ontario and the 

 provinces eastward, but not sufficiently well, apparently, 

 to make it prominent among economic pasture grasses. 

 At the Ontario experiment station at Guelph it proved 

 considerably less satisfactory in permanent pasture than 

 meadow fescue and tall oat grass. It is not likely to 



