O. M. Scott & Sons Co., Marysville, Ohio 



CREEPING RED FESCUE 



C 'REEFING Red Fescue spreads by means of slender root- 

 stocks. The seed is gathered in Germany and is avail- 

 able in comparatively small quantities. 



Pure Creeping Red Fescue cannot be bought, other va- 

 rieties always being found mixed with it. The different va- 

 rieties are collected by German peasants, and whatever they 

 bring to the seedsman, is sold as "Creeping Red." Since 

 Sheep's Fescue grows extensively in the same localities, 

 some of it is certain to be gathered as Red Fescue. Thus, 

 Red Fescue is never free from impurities. This information 

 is substantiated by the experiment stations at Zurich and 

 Hamburg. 



Our personal observations have led us to purchase Red 

 Fescue, so called, in very limited quantities, and then only 

 after a thorough test. 



SHEEP'S FESCUE 



cr^HEKE is much confusion as regards Sheep's Fescue and 

 ■^ "Hard Fescue." The distinction said to exist is favor- 

 able to the former because of its supposed finer texture. How- 

 ever, without exception, German seedsmen told our repre- 

 sentative that Sheep's Fescue and Hard Fescue are taken 

 out of the same bag. European experiment station authori- 

 ties spoke of Hard and Sheep's Fescue as the same, drawing 

 no distinction between the supposedly different strains. 



Such matters may seem 

 trivial, and yet quite often 

 they are of enough conse- 

 quence to save hundreds of 

 dollarsinseed-buyingcosts. 

 - As Sheep's Fescue is in- 



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