AGRICULTURE. 



When a grass plant does not grow tall, but grows short and 

 thick, we use such plants for pasture grasses. Such grasses 

 are June grass and Canadian blue grass. 



Fig. 21. Kentucky blue grass or June grass. A pasture and lawn grass. 



The best way to study the different grasses is to study them 

 as they are growing ; you will then find out how many there 

 are and how different they are in form of leaf and head, in 

 color, and in their habits of growing. 



BLOSSOMING OF GRASSES. There is one other point to study 

 in grasses, and that is their blossoming. The blossoming of 

 the corn plant will be referred to in the next chapter. The 

 blossoms of wheat and oats are much like those of timothy, 

 shown in fig. 20. The grass blossoms, generally, are very 

 small and are not very bright in color, we are therefore likely 

 to overlook them ; but every grass plant blossoms before it 

 forms seed. If we allow the timothy to stand too long before 



