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These twelve mixtures, mostly adopted from Dr. Flint's 

 work, with alterations to suit climate and soil will, as a 

 rule, meet the demands of almost every variety of land 

 in Tennessee. Of course any variation may be made in 

 either the species or in the proportions, according to the 

 fancy, bearing in mind the general amount of seed used 

 in the above mixtures. 



The first mixture, or Lawson's, is prepared for Scotland, 

 and we were induced to engraft both that and the Nos. 2, 3, 4, 

 5, 8 and 9, which were arranged for a higher latitude, from 

 the fact that much land in the State of Tennessee lies at so 

 high an elevation that it is equivalent to a lower tempera- 

 ture. For instance, in East Tennessee, we find grasses on 

 the higher mountains, that are only fouud on the crests of 

 the White Mountains in New Hampshire. So, in descending 

 the mountains, and even in the higher valleys, these grass- 

 es are in a flourishing condition, that will not grow at all, or 

 very imperfectly, on the water courses of Middle Tennessee. 

 In a visit to the Unaka Mountains, last September, in com- 

 pany with some members of the Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science we saw some grasses growing in great lux- 

 uriance on the "Balds" of that range, and on the top of the 

 Roane Mountain that we had never seen elsewhere, but 

 Prof. Chickering, of Washington City, recognized them as 

 similar to those seen on Mt. Washington and in Canada. 



