. Farm grasses of the United States; a practical treatise on the grass crop, seeding and management of meadows and pastures, descriptions of the best varieties, the seed and its impurities, grasses for special conditions, etc., etc. f the case permitted; in this way each plantbecame the parent, by division, of a large number ofplants, all set side by side in a plat. When seed washarvested from these plats it was found that theplants produced from these seeds reproduced faithfullythe characters of the original seledlion. Each originalseledlion, therefore, became the parent of a
. Farm grasses of the United States; a practical treatise on the grass crop, seeding and management of meadows and pastures, descriptions of the best varieties, the seed and its impurities, grasses for special conditions, etc., etc. f the case permitted; in this way each plantbecame the parent, by division, of a large number ofplants, all set side by side in a plat. When seed washarvested from these plats it was found that theplants produced from these seeds reproduced faithfullythe characters of the original seledlion. Each originalseledlion, therefore, became the parent of a of these varieties are now growing in the grass-garden of the Department of Agriculture, where theyhave been the objedt of careful observation. Theydiffer markedly in charadler of growth, earliness, size,etc. Some of them are evidently far superior to theordinary timothy as grown by farmers (which is amixture of superior and inferior varieties), some forseed production, others as hay plants, and others aspasture plants. (Some of Dr. Hopkins varieties oftimothy exhibited at the Paris Exposition are shownin Figs. 46 and 47.) In a manner exadtly similar, Mr. A. B. I<eckenby,Direc5lor of the Eastern Oregon Experiment Station,.
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