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up to keep the ground in a constant state of verdure. It grows 

 luxuriantly on the top of Lookout Mountain, having been set there 

 many years ago. This mountain is, 2,200 feet high, and has, as a 

 matter of course, excessively cold winters ; so, if it thrives there, no 

 fear need be entertained as to its capacity to endure our climate. 

 Cattle are very fond of it, and will leave clover to feed upon Ber- 

 muda. It also has the capacity to withstand any amount of heat 

 and drought, and months that are so dry as to chepk the growth of 

 blue-grass, will only make the Bermuda greener and more thrifty. 

 The experiment of mixing the two grasses, spoken of above has 

 been tried with eminent success. 



It is also used in the South as meadow grass,^but Tennessee has 

 so many other grasses of more value, that it would not be profitable 

 to employ this, other than as a pasture grass. 



Where it is indigenous, it has a great reputation as a fertilizer, 

 and many fields so worn out as to be worthless, have been re- 

 claimed by it. The labor of plowing it up is considerable, but the 

 many improved plows of the present day would be easily dragged 

 through it. There is a sacred grass in India called the Daub, and 

 it is venerated by the inhabitants on account of its wonderful use- 

 fulness. This is said to be precisely the same as the Bermuda, ex- 

 cept the changes made by the difference of climate and soil. 



" Bermuda grass well set, which affords the finest and most nutri- 

 tious pasturage I have ever seen, will keep almost any number of 

 sheep to the acre three or four times as many as blue-grass." 



HAIRY MUSKIT MEZQUITB MBSQUIT (Bouleloua curtipend- 

 ula.) 



Muskit fgrass has come into very general use in some parts of 

 Virginia, North Carolina, and, to some extent, in Tennessee, and 

 where used, has given much satisfaction. It is the grass of the 

 northern and western prairies, and is very nutritious. In the ab- 

 sence of grasses better suited to this climate, the muskit might be- 

 come a very popular grass, but such is not the case. Great quanti- 

 ties of it are annually cut and sold as prairie hay. It would be 

 well for some enterprising farmer to experiment with it. 



ANNUAL SPEAR GRASS-GOOSE GRASS (Poa annua.} 



This is one of the species of the valuable genus poa to which 

 blue-grass belongs, and is a very common grass on all our swards, 



