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pass through it. There is a saying in the South, " that it 

 would take a team of six bull elephants to draw a thumb- 

 lancet through it." 



It will throw its runners over a rock six feet across, and 

 soon hide it from view ; or, it will run down the sides of 

 the deepest gully and stop its washing. 



The parks of the South, set with it, present a very beau- 

 tiful appearance if kept mown, and its pale green color acts 

 as a great relief to the landscape when burning with the 

 summer suns of the South. Hogs thrive upon its succulent 

 roots, and horses and cattle upon its foliage. It has seed, 

 but is always propagated by dropping cuttings in a furrow 

 two or three feet apart, from the fact that the seed rarely 

 mature, so that practically it may be said to have none. It, 

 however, does not endure a shade, and the weeds must be 

 mown from it the first year. 



In some of the worn and gullied fields of Tennessee, on 

 her mountain sides and on the sandy hills of many parts of 

 the State, the cultivation of this grass would be a grand 

 improvement, making the waste places to bloom, where now 

 only sterility reigns. During the winter it, unlike blue 

 grass, disappears from view, but with the warming influences 

 of the sun it springs up and affords a constant grazing 

 through the spring, summer and autumn months. The 

 farmers of the South, before the war, looked upon it as a 

 curse rather than a blessing, and used every endeavor to 

 destroy it. But a change of opinion has taken place in this 

 respect, and it is encouraged in its growth. 



It would be a good grass to mix with blue grass, as, when 

 it disappears in the winter, the blue grass and white clover 

 will spring 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, it it thrives there, no fear need 

 be entertained as to its capacity to endure our climate. 



