The blue-grass region of Kentucky : and other Kentucky articles . beautiful in thespring, just before the seed stalks have shot upwardfrom the flowing tufts, and while the thin, smooth,polished blades, having risen to their greatest height,are beginning to bend, or break and fall over onthemselves and their nether fellows from sheer lux-uriance. The least observant eye is now constrainedto note that blue-°rass is the characteristic element O of the Kentucky turf—the first element of beautyin the Kentucky landscape. Over the stretches ofwoodland pasture, over the meadows and the lawns,by the ed
The blue-grass region of Kentucky : and other Kentucky articles . beautiful in thespring, just before the seed stalks have shot upwardfrom the flowing tufts, and while the thin, smooth,polished blades, having risen to their greatest height,are beginning to bend, or break and fall over onthemselves and their nether fellows from sheer lux-uriance. The least observant eye is now constrainedto note that blue-°rass is the characteristic element O of the Kentucky turf—the first element of beautyin the Kentucky landscape. Over the stretches ofwoodland pasture, over the meadows and the lawns,by the edges of turnpike and lane, in the fence cor-ners—wherever its seed has been allowed to flourish—it spreads a verdure so soft in fold and fine in text-ure, so entrancing by its freshness and fertility, thatit looks like a deep-lying, thick-matted emerald thinks of it, not as some heavy, velvet-like car-pet spread over the earth, but as some light, seam-less veil that has fallen delicately around it, and thatmight be blown away by a passing After this youwill not see theblue-grass so beau-tiful. The seed ripens in the slender seed stalkshave sprung up above the uni-form green level, bearing ontheir summits the fuzzy, plu-my, purplish seed-vessels; andsave the soft, feathery undu-lations of these as the wind sweeps over them, the beauty of the blue-grass isgone. Moreover, certain robust and persistent weeds BLUE-GRASS. 6 THE BLUE-GRASS REGION and grasses have been growing apace, rougheningand diversifying the sward, so that the vista is lesscharming. During July and August the blue-grasslies comparatively inactive, resting from fructifica-tion, and missing, as well, frequent showers to tem-per the sunshine. In seasons of severe drought iteven dies quite away, leaving the surface of theearth as bare and brown as a winter landscape orarid plain. Where it has been closely grazed, onemay, in walking over it, stir such a dust as onewould raise on a
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