CHAPTER III. 
PLANTS MULTIPLY BY MEANS OF STEMS. 
7. Two grasses in 
lawn at the Michigan 
muda grass was 
grass, and the 
most interesting, 
for six weeks in 
usually abounds 
June grass thrives 
the dry, hot weeks 
fierce contention. — In growing a 
Agricultural College, a little Ber- 
scattered with June 
struggle has been 
In the spring and 
autumn, when moisture 
and the weather is cool, 
d little else is seen. In 
July and August, June 
Fig. 6. — Rootstock of quick grass which has grown through a potato, and in this way may 
be carried to another field or another farm. 
grass rests and the Bermuda, which continues to spread, 
assumes control of the lawn, with but little of the June 
grass in sight. Each struggles for possession and does 
