6o THE GRASSES— TALL MEADOW FESCUE. 



Professor Phares, of Mississippi, says it grows well 

 in nearly all situations, wet or dry, on hill or bottom- 

 land, even though subject to overflow, and matures 

 an extraordinary quantity of seed. The seeds germinate 

 readily, and it is easy to set a piece of land with this 

 grass. On account of remaining green throughout 

 the winter, it is sometimes called " evergreen grass." 

 Mowed and dried it makes good hay, much relished by 

 stock. 



Dr. Steblee reports that it flowers at the end of May 

 or beginning of June, some days later than Tall Oat- 

 grass and Cocksfoot, and ripens its seed about end of 

 July; It gives abundant produce of good quality, and, 

 being a true perennial, should never be omitted on land 

 that is suitable to it, viz., good loam or clay soils where 

 a sufficiency of moisture can be had. It will also do 

 fairly well on a cool sandy soil that can be irrigated ; in 

 fact, there is scarcely any grass that profits so much by 

 irrigation as this one. It takes rather longer to develop 

 than some of the grasses, and it is only in the second or 

 third year that it reaches its complete development. 

 When established it commences to vegetate early in 

 spring, and grows quickly, so that on good ground one 

 can get three good cuttings in a favourable season. In 

 point of earliness it comes immediately after Meadow 

 Foxtail. 



Mr. Fatjnce De Latjne. — Although Tall Fescue is 

 usually represented as doing well only on damp soils — 

 moist clay, and so forth — it is reported by Mr. De Laune 

 that plants of it during the exceptionally dry summer 

 of 1884 retained their fresh green colour, and continued 

 to grow, when all other grasses in the same pasture 

 were suffering from the excessive and long-continued 



