. Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. Fig. 7.—Timothy Grass. 44 N. C. AGRKUTTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 1896. of that grass afterfor moist soils. Fig. 8. -Red top Grass. It is also an excellent pasture grass Fiorin Grass—Agrostisstolonifera.—A low grow-ing, creeping perennialgrass, native of the coolerparts of the temperatezone. Much esteemed asa hay and pasture grass forboggy soils. On our up-land plat the seed sproutedpoorly and few plants grewthe first year. The secondyear it did better, but wasstill poor. The third yearit showed scattered butvigorous


. Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. Fig. 7.—Timothy Grass. 44 N. C. AGRKUTTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 1896. of that grass afterfor moist soils. Fig. 8. -Red top Grass. It is also an excellent pasture grass Fiorin Grass—Agrostisstolonifera.—A low grow-ing, creeping perennialgrass, native of the coolerparts of the temperatezone. Much esteemed asa hay and pasture grass forboggy soils. On our up-land plat the seed sproutedpoorly and few plants grewthe first year. The secondyear it did better, but wasstill poor. The third yearit showed scattered butvigorous stools of a richgreen color, and has con-tinued to hold its groundsincr. Was 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 peren


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