HAY AND PASTURE PLANTS RECOMMENDED. 49 
freight cars in which rescue-grass hay was being shipped. Some 
Oregon-grown seed received from the Agrostologist was sown in 
the grass garden May 4, 1899. An excellent stand was secured, 
but when the stalks were only 6 to 8 inches tall the seed heads 
began to form. At no time was the growth vigorous, and by Octo- 
ber 1 the leaves were all dead, and the roots, though they survived 
the drought of that year, did not revive after the autumn rains 
began. Some seeds of the volunteer growth on the Texas and Pacific 
Railroad reservation were 
gathered in 1899 and were 
sown in the grass garden in 
the spring of 1900, but fol- 
lowing the sowing late in 
May there was a dry spell 
and very few, if any, of 
them germinated, whether 
because of the dry weather 
or because the seeds were not 
fully matured when gath- 
ered was not determined. 
As no satisfactory tests of 
this grass were made in the 
course of the station work, 
and the only conclusions 
practicable are based on ob- 
servations as to the volun- 
teer growth referred to, no 
definite recommendation as 
to the grass for central 
Texas is ventured. It is 
the belief of the writer, 
however, that if well-ma- 
tured seed be planted any- 
where in the section, under 
normal conditions, rescue 
grass will prove a very val- 
uable addition to the many 
excellent grasses, native and 
imported, known to do well in the section. Reports from other sec- 
tions in and out of Texas show it to be a superior grass both for 
hay and pasture purposes. (See fig. 4.) 
: 
Fie. 4.—Rescue grass. 
THE SEDGES (Cyperus and Carex spp.). 
These are not, in fact, true grasses, but as they are distributed over 
a wide extent of country, including Central Texas, and in the early 
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