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and no doubt will be hardy everywhere. These, 

 even in the first generation from the wild native 

 parent, show variation in rapidity and compact- 

 ness of growth, and from all appearance a few 

 years' work will give us a lawn plant for all 

 climates, but probably a little more difficult to 

 get started. 



All the hypericums will stand a great amount 

 of drought and ill treatment; are unusually 

 hardy, stand tramping and mowing readily. No 

 doubt in future there will be produced varieties 

 that will be valuable as lawn plants for all 

 climates. 



Until the new plants have been perfected, 

 however, the conventional lawn grass, with Ken- 

 tucky blue grass at the head of the list, must be 

 relied on in colder climates. It is not necessary 

 to refer to the common lawn grasses here in 

 detail, their general character and qualities being 

 familiar to everyone, and there having been no 

 marked development in recent years in the way 

 of improving them. 



It suffices to suggest that care should be taken 

 in buying seed from reputable dealers that grass 

 of good quality may be secured and the number 

 of weeds minimized. Beyond that it is hardly 

 to be expected that the interests of the amateur 

 plant developer will extend. For the grasses do 



