196 FARM GRASSES OF THE UNITED STATES 
tions of it have been made on our North Atlantic 
Coast and in Western Europe. It also thrives in the 
sands on the shores of the Great Lakes. It is propa- 
gated entirely from sets, not from seed. Of cultivated 
grasses, millet is adapted to rather sandy soils, and 
rye is an excellent winter crop for such lands; but 
these two crops are not adapted to the sandiest soils. 
Canada blue-grass (Poa compressa) possesses some 
advantages as a pasture or lawn grass where the soil 
is sandy. 
In the South there are several good grasses for this 
purpose, the best being Bermuda grass, carpet-grass, 
and 
St. AucustinE Grass (Stenotaphrum dimidea- 
tum).—All three of these are propagated from cuttings 
or pieces of sod. St. Augustine grass occurs along the 
Atlantic Coast from Charleston, S. C., southward, but 
does not extend far inland. It is a popular lawn grass 
in that section. Numerous grasses are found growing 
on more or less sandy land in the West, but none of 
them have found their way into the markets. 
VELVET-GRASS (fYolcus lanatus), one of the oldest 
domesticated grasses in England, is, in the immediate 
vicinity of the Pacific Coast, a first-class meadow grass 
on soils that consist of nearly pure sand. It is dis- 
cussed in a previous chapter. 
SEASIDE BLUE-GRASS (Poa macrantha) (Fig. 42) is 
also found on the sands at the mouth of the Columbia 
River. This grass may be worth looking after. It 
produces an abundance of seed, which is easily har- 
vested. Whether it has any value away from the coast 
is not known. 
