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call red-top. This is a tall, coarse native grass, 

 often quite abundant on low lands, botanically 

 Agrostis alba. Sow small red-top, or Rhode 

 Island bent, and June grass (Kentucky blue- 

 grass, if you prefer that name), Poa pratensis. 

 If in the chaff, sow in any proportion you fancy, 

 and in any quantity up to four bushels per acre. 

 If evenly sown, less will answer; but the thicker 

 it is sown the sooner the ground will be covered 

 with fine green grass. We can add nothing else 

 that will improve this mixture, and either alone 

 is about as good as both'. Under no circum- 

 stances sow a little oats or rye ' to protect the 

 young grass.' Instead of protecting, they will 

 rob the slender grasses of what they most need." 

 Daniel Batchelor : "As to the grasses best 

 adapted to soils and situations, it may first be 

 said that a wet soil is hardly to be considered as 

 a fit situation for a lawn ; nevertheless, there are 

 places where a moist condition of the soil can 

 not well be avoided, and for such the best grasses 

 are Poa trivialis, or rough-stalk meadow-grass ; 

 Alopecarus pratensts, or meadow fox-tail ; and 

 Agrostis vulgaris, or red-top. For average good 

 soil I have had the best results from a seeding, 

 in about equal proportions, of Poa pratensis, 

 or Kentucky blue-grass ; Festuca duriscula, or 

 hard fescue ; Agrostis cam'na, or creeping bent ; 



