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MIXTURE FOR PERMANENT PASTURES. 



For Permanent Pastures. 



Meadow Foxtail, flowering in May and June, 2 pounds. 



Orchard Grass, 



Sweet-scented Vernal, 



Meadow Fescue, 



Redtop, 



Kentucky Blue Grass, 



Italian Rye Grass, 



Perennial Rye Grass, 



Timothy, 



Rough -stalked Meadow, 



Perennial Clover, 



White Clover, 



40 pounds. 



This mixture would give the enormous number of 

 over 54,000,000 seeds ! In an acre there are 6,27*2,640 

 inches, so that the mixture would give about eight seeds 

 to the square inch. We see, from the preceding table, 

 that in an old, close sward there were but about 1000 

 plants to the square foot, or, on an average, about 

 seven plants to the square inch. 



This is, therefore, a very large and liberal seeding, 

 and leaves a large margin for worthless seeds, for im- 

 perfect sowing, and for destruction of plants by insects 

 and frost. 



The weight of the seeds of each of the species of the 

 above mixture, together with the period of blossoming 

 of each, will furnish a sufficient reason for the quantity 

 recommended, and the reader is referred to Table XIV. 

 for further explanation. 



A permanent pasture mixture, recommended by the 

 Messrs. Lawson & Sons, very experienced seedsmen of 

 Edinburgh, Scotland, may be worthy of study in con- 

 nection with the descriptions of the various species, as 

 given in the first chapter. It is as follows : 



