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where it was introduced over a century ago from America, bya 
Mr, Timothy Hansen ; hence its name. In the latter-named 
country it is the staple alternate grass, and is known as “blue 
grass.” 
Timothy is sometimes grown alone with great success, when 
it can be treated as its nature requires, but it is quite useless to 
sow it on dry, sandy, or gravelly soil, because, although it 
resists cold well, it is of a thirsty nature. 
It is a popular grass, largely used, and will continue so to be 
as long as its seed remains reasonable in price. 
One pound of its seed is estimated to produce over a million 
and a quarter of germinating seeds, and it is the heaviest of all 
grass seeds—one imperial bushel scaling about go lb. 
Cocksroot (DacTYLIs GLOMERATA, Linn.). 
This grass, although popular with many, we class with the 
ssemi-weeds. Nevertheless, it is most useful on poor and 
inferior land, where it produces freely. 
Planted in and near to game preserves it is admirable, it 
produces fodder for the hares and rabbits, whilst the big 
coarse bunches of grass form splendid cover for them to lie in. 
On good land it grows up like the proverbial thistle, 
smothering everything else; whilst other grasses are seldom, if 
ever, found entwining themselves in a stool of cocksfoot. 
Where it has been introduced, and the soil suits it, it comes 
to stay. 
It is found on brows, in pits, and in hedgerows; in fact, it 
will take possession of every spare spot on the farm, putting 
forth its wiry stems and ugly heads (which sometimes have the 
disadvantage of being ergotty) until the farmer is driven to 
desperation by the failure of his attempts to eradicate it. 
It is like Italian ryegrass in that, on good soil, it will 
produce an immense crop, whilst ‘it is unlike it in that it is 4 
stayer. 
