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CARTERS PERENNIAL RYE GRASS. 
LOLIUM PERENNE. 
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. 
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 (piantities of Grass Seeds intended for permanent pastures, as illustrated in the system we have 
adopted with unqualified success for many years. 
The principal cultivated varieties of Perennial Rye Grass are : Loliinn perenne (Perennial Rye Grass), 
Lolium perenne Paceyanttm (Pacey’s Perennial Rye Grass), Lolinm perenne sempervirens (Evergreen 
Perennial Rye Grass). Usually flowers early in July. 
CARTERS PERENNIAL RYE GRASS. 
TESTED SEED FOR GERMINATION AND PURITY. 
Perennial Rye Grass.— Carters best selected perjiuarter. 
Heavy Seed 
Pacey’s Perennial Rye Grass 
Perennial Evergreen Devonshire Heaver 
Perennial Rye Grass 
66 O 
62 O 
58 O 
54 O 
Per busliel. 
d. 
8 6 
8 O 
7 6 
7 O 
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