Kentucky Blue Grass 
CONCERNING 
Kentucky Blue Grass (Poa pratensis). This grass is 100 
well known to justify our taking your time for a variety 
description, but we do wish to name some of its many good 
qualities accurately. 
It can truthfully be said that Kentucky Blue Grass is 
the foundation of nearly all the best lawn grass mixtures 
sold and such good authorities as Professor Curtis of Cornell 
in his bulletin L-2 on lawn making, names Kentucky Blue 
Grass first. 
Other great authorities are enthusiastic in its praise 
and its habits' of growth deserve admiration as well as its 
beauty. As for its hardiness we know that it has under¬ 
gone temperature far below zero without injury. As we 
look out across the lawn today, January 10th, the grass 
is very green and growing although we have already had 
zero temperature this* winter. The great drought of 1930, 
when we had practically no rain for six summer months, 
the grass came through perfectly and made the greatest 
seed crop in 1931 ever known. 
And so we have reasons to believe there is no desirable 
grass as practical to get and maintain as' Kentucky Blue Grass. 
— The Aristocrat of Permanent Grasses: .. — 
