MIXTURES FOR ORCHARDS. 



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Mixture for Mowing in the Rotation. 



A mixture has already been given for pastures in 

 orchards and shaded places, but it frequently happens, 

 especially in New England farming, that the mowing 

 lands are studded with fruit-trees, and a mixture is 

 often wanted adapted to such places. The following 

 will be found to do well : 



Mixture for Hay in Orchards and Shaded Places. 



Pounds. 



Orchard Grass, 6 



Hard Fescue, 2 



Tall Fescue, 2 



Italian Rye Grass, 3 



Perennial Rye Grass, 3 



Timothy, 6 



Redtop, 3 



Pounds. 



Wood Meadow Grass, 4= 



Rough-stalked Meadow Grass, . . 2 



June Grass, 4 



Perennial Red Clover, 3 



White Clover, 4 



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The above mixture will give a great many more 

 seeds to the acre than could be expected to grow and 

 come to maturity in shaded places. A large allowance 



