WOOD MEADOW GRASS AKD ROUGH STALK MEADOW. 95 



as will be seen, but little inferior to blue grass. It is best 

 sown in September or February, on the snow, and requires 

 two pounds of seed per acre. It is a fine pasture grass as 

 well as meadow. 





 ROUGH STALK MEADOW (Poo trimalis}. 



This species of the Poa is a favorite in England, and 

 stands there in the same estimation as the blue grass does 

 here. It may be said to be a giant blue grass, as it grows 

 very tall, and yields about a ton of hay the first cutting. 

 It can with difficulty be distinguished from the blue grass, 

 except in size, and wanting the wooly covering of the seeds, 

 as in the latter. However, it does not resist the inclemen- 

 cies of the weather as well as blue grass. In this climate 

 it would be a valuable mixture with other grasses, as it 

 affords a good aftermath, but alone it does not turf well. 

 On analysis, it yields almost identically the same ingredients 

 with blue grass. It is eaten greedily by all kinds of stock, 

 and though it does not make a very early pasture, it yet 

 grows rapidly when the weather becomes warm. It is well 

 adapted to moist, clayey soils. When sown alone, twelve 

 pounds of seed per acre are used. Pastured too heavily, 

 the roots become exposed to the sun, and it is liable to be 

 destroyed by the heat. It mixes well with orchard grass. 

 Calcareous loams are best suited to it. 



WILLARDS BROME CHESS OR CHEAT (Brvmus seealinus. 



It belongs to the family of Bromes, has panicled flowers with spike- 

 lets, from five to many flowered ; glumes not quite equal, shorter than 

 the flowers, mostly keeled, the lower ones five, the upper three to nine 

 nerved, palea herbaceous, lower one convex on the back or compressed, 

 keeled, five to nine nerved, awned or bearded from below tne tip, 

 upper palea at length adhering to the groove of the oblong grain, 

 fringed on the keel, stamens three styles attached below the apex of 

 the ovary. 



This pest and scourge of the wheat grower is not treated 

 of here for the purpose of encouraging its growth as a food 



