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drought. Owing to the great production of fine root leaves, this species makes a 
good bottom grass, and as these leaves are quite soft the grass is well adapted 
for lawns, and is particularly recommended for those which are too much 
but the seed is offered for sale by our leading seedsmen, the retail price being 
from $2.50 to $3 per bushel of about 14 pounds. | 
Festuca littoralis Steud. d 
A native of the seacoasts of Australia and New Zealand. It is a hardy grass, 1 to 3 
feet high, with erect, E leaves and narrow ym cle 3 to 10 inches long. It 
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fodder, but the tough, dá herbage is inda for paper 
making, and the densely tufted habit of growth renders the y 
species useful for binding drifting sands. 
Festuca microstachya Nutt. Western Fescue; Small Fescue. "rd 
This is a low native annual species of the Rocky Mountain 1 l 
region and the Pacific Slope. It has no agricultural value. j 
Pestuca nutans Willd. Nodding Fescue. y 
A native grass, 1 to 4 feet high, with a loosely flowered, nodding UP 
panicle and perennial root. It is found in moist, open woods | 
and along thicket borders. It has no recognized agri- 
eultural value. j 
Festuca ovina Linn. Sheep's Fescue; Piñon-grass (in Nevada); / 
Pine Bunch-grass. | 
Sheep’s Fescue exists in many varieties in the rege 
States, especially in the Rocky Mountain regions 
these varieties attain the height of 2 or 3 feet, ul pes 
ihe most part they are rarely more than a foot high, pro- 
ducing a large amount of fine herbage, whieh is l Y 
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from this F 
| eultivation on light, dry soils, especially those which are re Fi, . 
| shallow and silicious. Although a native of this country, „e ar. 
our seed supply comes mostly, if not entirely from Europe, inia.) 
| where the grass is also native. Sow 21 to 3 bushels per 
| 3 acre. The weight of a bushel of seed is about 14 pounds. Price per bushel 
| $2.25 to $2.75. 
| Festuca pratensis. (See Festuca elatior.) 
Festuca rubra Linn. Red Fescue; Creeping Fescue. 
This grass grows tend the Atlantic coast of the New England and Middle e 
and in the Nort ibas s extending westward to the Pacific. Like Festu 
ovina, : aie iiid di form i 
by its creeping rhizomes it will form a compact and durable 
of this habit of growth, it is a useful grass for binding moving sands along the 
woher or covering gravelly banks and dry slopes. In Germany, Red Fescue 
as one of the most valuable grasses for dry, sandy meadows 
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