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NOTE. 



The Tennessee Experiment Station published, in 1892 and 1894, two 

 bulletins on The Grasses of Tennessee, from the pen of Prof. F. Lamson- 

 Scribner, at that time Botanist of the Station, now Agrostologist of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture. Part I. of this work was a 

 handy reference book of information as to the general character and qual- 

 ity of our grasses; Part II. was a handbook of the grasses of the State, 

 with full descriptions and illustrations. 



The present publication is the first of a series of bulletins which will 

 discuss the methods of cultivating and using the domesticated grasses 

 and forage plants of Tennessee, of establishing and maintaining perma- 

 nent meadows and of harvesting and using the various kinds of forage. 

 It is designed thus to complete the former series. 



The Station has been fortunate in securing, to prepare this new series, 

 the services of Col. J. B. Killebrew, A. M., Ph. D., probably the greatest 

 authority in the South upon the culture and uses of grasses and forage 

 plants, whose work on the grasses and forage plants of Tennessee, pub- 

 lished in 1878, now entirely out of print, remained until the present time 

 the best manual on the subject. The present work gives the result of 

 twenty years' additional study and experience in the cultivation of grasses 

 and forage plants. 



The analytical engravings of grasses in this Bulletin were made by 

 Prof. F. Lamson-Scribner. A few of the larger cuts are from Scribner's 

 translation of Haeckel's "True Grasses." The half tone engravings are 

 from Tennessee and Southern sources. 



CHAS. W. DABNEY, President. 



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