House and Garden 
bottom, which kept its waters fresh and 
flowing and had its outlet in a little 
stream which flowed into the East River 
at the foot of James Street. 
Smaller ponds dotted the island in 
various places, and an unbroken chain 
of water stretched across the island 
from James Street to the southeast to 
Canal Street at the northwest. An inlet 
occupied the place of Broad Street; 
a marsh covered the vicinity of Ferry 
Street; Rutgers Street formed the center 
of another marsh, and a long line of 
meadows and swamp ground stretched 
to the northward along the eastern shore. 
The highest line of lands lay along 
Broadway from the Battery to the most 
northerly part of the island, forming its 
backbone and sloping gradually to the 
east and west. On the corner of Grand 
Street and Broadway was a hill com¬ 
manding a view of the whole island, and 
falling off gradually to the fresh-water 
pond.— -N. T. Times. 
THE QUALITY OF GRASS SEED 
^ I ^HE Maine law regulating the sale of 
agricultural seeds requires that 
grass seed shall be sold under a guarantee 
as to purity. Bulletin 138 of the Maine 
Agricultural Experiment Station, which, 
doubtless many of your readers have 
received, gives analyses of the seeds 
which were collected by the inspector 
and those sent to the Experiment Station 
by correspondents in 1906. The dealers 
are very generally conforming to the law 
and the purity of most seeds is now 
guaranteed. The question naturally 
arises in the mind of a farmer,—should 
a seed be strictly pure, and if not, how 
nearly pure should it be ^ 
The purity of seeds varies greatly with 
their kind. It is possible to grow timo¬ 
thy seed so clean that it shall carry prac¬ 
tically no foreign weed seeds. It is not 
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The best red clover seed will often¬ 
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are usually comparatively harmless. In 
many of the low grade red clovers, which 
are only 95 per cent pure, it sometimes 
happens that a largepartof the impurities 
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