CARTERS’ PERENNIAL RYE GRASS 
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LOLiUM PERENNE. (See illustration facing.) 
A popular and valuable Grass when used in moderation in its proper place. 
There is little doubt that the use of Rye Grass has been, and still is, at times very greatly abused. This abuse, in some 
instances, arises from the demand for so-called cheap Seeds. On the other hand, we believe that the most prominent opponents of the use 
of Rye Grass in the best pastures are of opinion that its exclusion is not desirable where the Seeds are intended to be sown upon land 
that is admitted to be below a certain commercial standard of value for agricultural purposes. It is also indisputable that where the 
hay or the pasture is required for horses, or for mixed grazing, Rye Grass is equally necessary, and it is an important fact that amongst 
the best farmers in Scotland Rye Grass forms the most prominent ingredient in the mixture of Seeds sown. It should, however, be 
borne in mind that land laid down to pasture in Scotland is generally broken up again within a period of from four to six years, so that 
this statement applies rather to the value to be attached to Rye Grass as a Hay Crop than to its adaptability for pastures of undefined 
duration, although it largely dominates among the grasses in all the old natural pastures found in the richest milk and butter-producing 
districts of the country. 
Perennial Rye Grass is necessary in many prescriptions for permanent pastures as well as for those intended to produce crops of 
more limited duration. The use of Rye Grass is of very ancient date, references to the existence and adaptation of *' Rye Grass” being 
found in a work published in England about the year r 67 7, whilst to the county of Oxford belongs the honour of its first general 
introduction at about the period to which we have referred. 
It is generally recognised that Perennial Rye Grass is of value in almost all cases where large crops of herbage are required, but 
at the same time it is necessary to remember that, whereas on soils congenial to its requirements it is enormously productive and of 
high nutritive quality, in other cases, and where the soil and the surrounding conditions are not so favourable, the results, both as to 
extent of crop and feeding properties, are considerably lessened ; hence the necessity for the proper adaptation of varieties and proportion 
of quantities of Grass Seeds intended for permanent pastures, as illustrated in the system we have adopted with unqualified success for 
many years. As a matter of fact, Perennial Rye Grass is a grass for good soils, and poor soils are incapable of making it a successful 
■ crop. 
The principal cultivated varieties of Perennial Rye Grass are : Lolium perenne (Perennial Rye Grass), Lolium perenne Paceyanum 
(Pacey’s Perennial Rye Grass), Lolium perenne sempervtrens (Evergreen Perennial Rye Grass). Usually flowers early in July. 
The weed seeds abounding in many cheap samples are: Bromus mollis (Soft Brome Grass), Festuca sciuroides (Rat's-tail Fescue), 
Plant ago lanceolata (Plantain), Holcus lanatus (Yorkshire Fog), and Ranunculus acris (Buttercup). 
CARTER S’ PERENNIAL RYE GRASS. 
NEW SEED TESTED FOB GEBMINATION AND PUBITY. 
Perennial Rye Grass. — Carters’ best selected Heavy Seed 
Pacey’s Perennial Rye Grass 
Perennial Evergreen Devonshire Heaver 
Perennial Rye Grass 
VP? A REDUCED PRICE IS ALWAYS CHARGED FOR MORE THAN ONE QUARTER. 
Per quarter. Per bushel. 
d. 
65 0 
54 0 
54 0 
46 0 
rf. 
8 6 
7 0 
7. 0 
6 0 
EVIDENCE OF THE SUPERIOR QUALITY OF’ OUR GRASS SEEDS. 
“ I take this opportunity of letting you know that I am now cutting my crop of New Meadow Grass, the result of your Seeds (about 25 acres), and 
.notwithstanding an absolute drought for the past six weeks or more, 1 calculate to have quite an average of three tons to the acre, and in parts some experts say 
.it will cut four tons. It is a wonderful sight for so terribly dry a year.” — R. F. H. W. 
CARTERS', 237, 288. & 97, .HIGH MOLBORN. LONDON.— 1901. 
