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Lands liable to be overflowed with fresh water will do best if sown 

 with the following mixture: 



Fiorin 4 Ibs. 



English Bent 3 Ibs. 



Tall fescue 5 Ibs. 



Slender fescue 2 Ibs. 



Manna grass 5 Ibs. 



Reed canary grass 3 Ibs. 



Timothy 4 Ibs. 



Red top 3 Ibs. 



Rough-stalked meadow grass 4 Ibs. 



Fowl meadow grass 6 Ibs. 



White clover . 3 Ibs. 



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Prof. Beal, of the University of Michigan, recommends the sowing 

 of two bushels of Kentucky blue grass and two bushels of small bent 



VIEW ox LAWN, UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE. 



grass, known as Rhode Island bent, brown bent, or creeping bent, or red 

 top, to the acre for lawns. He thinks a few ounces of white clover seed 

 might be added, but it is by no means important. The bent grasses, so- 

 called, correspond with our herd's grass. He, as well as Prof. Scribner, 

 objects to the sowing of orchard grass in a lawn. My observation and 

 experience convince me that when orchard grass is sown at the rate of 

 three or four bushels of seed per acre in a woodland pasture where most 

 of the trees are oak it does better than the finer grasses, because it is a 



