ON SOME UNTRIED EXPERIMENTS 



worthy of further attention. In a few more sea- 

 sons, according to present indications, it will be so 

 fixed as to produce regularly from seed a type of 

 orchard grass that would nearly or often double 

 the growth of the ordinary variety. 



Another variable grass that I have cultivated 

 extensively in recent years, for observational pur- 

 poses rather than commercial varieties, and from 

 which new varieties are being developed, is the 

 species known as Acrostis fontanesi, recently 

 introduced from Algeria. From the same plant 

 have been produced seedlings with broad spread- 

 ing panicles, others with compact spikes, and yet 

 others with beautiful spreading spikes. On sow- 

 ing seed from different panicles, it was found that 

 the tendency to compactness or looseness of head 

 was transmitted or accentuated, so that widely 

 differing varieties were developed in the second 

 generation from seed of a single plant. 



I have obtained some similar results with the 

 Bermuda grass (Capriola), with which I have 

 experimented from time to time during the past 

 twenty years, more particularly in the effort to 

 produce a lawn grass which would fulfil the func- 

 tion in arid regions that the bluegrass fulfils in 

 moist climates. 



I have found that this grass varies even more 

 than most others do from seed, and by selection 



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