. Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. s not sown onlowland nor College grass can be recom-mended only for a perma-nent pasture mixture formoist soils in the piedmontand mountain low growing fine-leaved Brown Bent Grass—Agrostis canina perennial grass, native of the cooler parts of the temperate zone. On our upland plat this behaved similar to fiorin, but rather poorer ; not tried on lowland. Seems inferior to fiorin, and therefore does not promise much. Boquet Grass—Agrostis nebulosa.—A low and slender perennial grass, native of Spain, a
. Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. s not sown onlowland nor College grass can be recom-mended only for a perma-nent pasture mixture formoist soils in the piedmontand mountain low growing fine-leaved Brown Bent Grass—Agrostis canina perennial grass, native of the cooler parts of the temperate zone. On our upland plat this behaved similar to fiorin, but rather poorer ; not tried on lowland. Seems inferior to fiorin, and therefore does not promise much. Boquet Grass—Agrostis nebulosa.—A low and slender perennial grass, native of Spain, and valued chiefly as an ornamental grass for dry boquets. On ourupland plat this behavedsimilar to A. canina, butfor agricultural purposes isinferior to that species. Itis a beautiful ornamentalgrass. Seems to be hold-ing the ground as well asany of the Agrostis on lowland tried on College Grass — EatoniaPennsylvanica. — A slen-der perennial grass, na-tive of cooler parts ofNorth America, where it Fig. 9.—Fiorin FORAGE GRASSES AND HAY MAKING. 45 occurs in moist woodlands. Failed on our lowland plat. Not triedon upland. Not worth cultivating. Goose or Mana Grass— Glyceria fluitans.—An aquatic grass,found everywhere, but most common in North America. Grewvery poorly on all our plats, and died out with advent of hot grass may be useful for ponds where fish or water fowl arebred but for other purposes it has no value. Olcotts Fescue Grass—Festuca ovina, varf—A strong growingperennial variety, discovered in New England by James M. Olcott,ffrass ao-ent of the Connecticut Experiment Station. This varietyproved the most vigorous grower of all the smaller fescues. Formsa closer turf than Sheeps Fescue. On lowland plat it held itsground until summer of 1894, when it began to give way to redclover and Bermuda grass. None of the small fescues seemed longlivers on our plats. They root shallowly and are injured by s
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