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No. 11. Festuca tenuifolia— Slender Foxtail, Seed did not vege- 
tate. . 
No. 12. Agrostis Stolonifera— Creeping Bent Grass. Seed failed 
to vegetate. On July 1, replanted this plat with Bermuda grass seed 
presented by Messrs. Thorburn & Company, but the seed of this also 
failed to vegetate. 
No. 18. Poa nemoralis— Wood Meadow Grass. Vegetated May 
8; vipamad July 11. Seed vegetated but feebly, and the growth very 
small. 
No. 14. Agrostis canina—Rhode Island Bent Grass. Vegetated 
paws; bloomed July 29. Made a good growth, but the foliage a little 
arsh. 
No. 15. Poa aquatica. Seed failed to vegetate. 
No. 16. <Anthozanthum odoratum — Sweet Vernal Grass. Vege- 
tated May 3; bloomed July 3. A dwarf, leafy, hardy grass, of little 
value except possibly for pasture use as an aromatic food. 
No. 1%. Festuca ovina—Sheep Fescue Grass. Vegetated May 4, 
but did not bloom. The seed vegetated poorly, and the growth was 
feeble. ‘This grass gives no appearance of especial value. 
No. 18 Lolium perenne, var. Pacyi— Pacy’s Ray Grass. Vege- 
tated May 2, bloomed very scantily September 4. This grass showed 
throughout the season, even into the’ late autumn, a remarkable 
growth and succulency, evenness of foliage, and freedom from tufting 
habit. The narrow drill-mark seeded furnished plants which, in some 
rows, obliterated all the spaces. This first year’s trial justifies the 
greatest expectation that this grass may be found of extreme value 
for lawns and pastures. 
Our remarks upon the forage plants and grasses are founded upon 
our experience this year, and the conclusions arrived at, and state- 
ments made, are subject to the modification of future trials. 
ALFALFA AND LUCERNE. 
On April 19, planted two plats of lucerne and alfalfa. Both 
vegetated on May 2, or in thirteen days. The temperature of the soil 
at date of planting, taken at seven A. M., was 45° at one inch depth, 
and 52° at three inches depth. The growth of the alfalfa was slightly 
more vigorous than that of the lucerne, but on June 30 we record 
both as suffering from a sort of blight, the upper leaves turning yel- 
* low and wilting. On July 11 the alfalfa was in scanty bloom, while 
on July 27 the Jucerne had not yet bloomed. This backwardness 
caused by the blight, which séems to have checked growth and devel- 
opment on both sorts. We must not, from one trial, conclude that 
these “clovers” are unsuited to this soil or climate. In August, 
however, a second growth, more promising than the first, took place. 
The lucerne, of Europe, and the alfalfa, of California, are the same 
plant — Medicago sativa. Both have been highly commended as a 
forage plant in those climates and soils which are adapted to its 
growth. According to the ancient writers, it was introduced from 
Media into Greece in the time of Darius, and thence into Italy. Colu- 
mella estimated it as the choicest of forage plants, because it yielded 
perennially and afforded four, five or six cropsinayear, It is now 
