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lawns. Still another has hairy leaves that give 

 it a peculiar frosty appearance, whereas the 

 leaves of other varieties are most often glossy 

 green. 



The foliage of these selected new seedlings 

 vary greatly in size, the leaves of some being sev- 

 eral times as large as others. The half dozen 

 types selected are being used for further de- 

 velopment, and as might be expected they show 

 still more variations in the second generation. A 

 single plant of some of the rapid-growing varie- 

 ties usually overgrows and covers up perhaps a 

 dozen of the smaller lippias of the same age. 



Add that the new plants, in addition to their 

 rapid and compact growth, are adapted to dry 

 soil, requiring not one-tenth the water that blue 

 grass or other ordinary lawn grass requires, and 

 keeping in good condition longer than any blue 

 grass or clover lawn with a fraction of the care 

 or the expense for watering, weeding, and mow- 

 ing necessitated by the ordinary lawn and it is 

 obvious that these developed varieties of lip- 

 pias, constitute an important acquisition. 



Curiously enough the lippia lawn makes a 

 better appearance where it is frequently trod 

 upon and subjected to treatment that would 

 injure an ordinary grass lawn, or destroy it 

 altogether. The plants appear to pay no atten- 



