. Seeds, plants, garden tools. Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Oregon Portland. 42 PORTLAND SEED COMPANY'S CATALOGUE. Creeping Sent Grass. Agrostis stolenifera. Valuable to mix with other pasture grasses nd it will thrive in mo lerately moist soil. Best for small grass plats or croquet grouu Is. For pasture, sow 18 to 36 pounds per acre; for lawns 36 to 48 lbs. 1 lb. 35c; 100 ibs m trket price. Fi >ating Fescue. Festuca fluitans. A perennial with long creeping roots and pre- ferring a n
. Seeds, plants, garden tools. Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Oregon Portland. 42 PORTLAND SEED COMPANY'S CATALOGUE. Creeping Sent Grass. Agrostis stolenifera. Valuable to mix with other pasture grasses nd it will thrive in mo lerately moist soil. Best for small grass plats or croquet grouu Is. For pasture, sow 18 to 36 pounds per acre; for lawns 36 to 48 lbs. 1 lb. 35c; 100 ibs m trket price. Fi >ating Fescue. Festuca fluitans. A perennial with long creeping roots and pre- ferring a nh muldy or alluv al soil. Found in ductus, along rivers, in marshv nlaces etc. Trout a id wild ducks are very fond of the seeds and tender shoots. 1 lb. 35c; 100 lbs. market price. Fescue, Sheep's. Festuca ovina. Grows freely in high, dry and open pastures. Its chief merit for sheep pasture is that, it occupies land which better grasses refuse; grows from sist anv time from July to October. When three feet high it falls down, or lodges, and alter a little time every joint puts forth new branches. The stalk is always sw et and tender, and cattle and sheep are fond of it. Requires ab nit twenty-five pounds of seed per acre. Sow in spring or fall. Per lb. 40c; 100 lbs. $ Hungarian Grass—See Millet, Hungarian. "Lawn Grass, Choice. A good, strong-growing grass for lawns that w;ll give satis- faction. Sow one hundr-d pounds to the acre, twelve to fifteen pounds to an ordinary city- lot, lib 15c; 10 > lbs. market price. I/iwti Grass, Fancy. Is composed of the finest and best mixture of neat, compactly growing vtrieties, producing a fine sward. Sow 100 lbs. to the acre. 1 lb. 25c; 100 lbs. market price. Meadow Fescue—See Blue Grass, English. Mia low Foxtail. 4/ >pecurus pratensis. One of the very best for permvieii astu e. Do*s well on soil interme liate in moisture and dryness. Sta >ds in ense sutntne eat without burning. Sow 2 > lbs. to the acre. 1 lb. 30c;
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