. Grasses and forage plants. A practical treatise. Comprising their natural history; comparative nutritive value; methods of cultivating, cutting, and curing; and the management of grass lands in the United States and British Provinces. Grasses; Forage plants. 76 FLOATING MEADOW GfEASS. panicle, and long, linear spikelets. It grows from fifteen inches to two feet high, with a perennial, creeping root, erect, round, smooth stem, leaves large, rather long, roughish on both sides, lower ones flat, upper ones generally- folded ; spikelets few, long and linear, as shown in Pig. 45, which represents
. Grasses and forage plants. A practical treatise. Comprising their natural history; comparative nutritive value; methods of cultivating, cutting, and curing; and the management of grass lands in the United States and British Provinces. Grasses; Forage plants. 76 FLOATING MEADOW GfEASS. panicle, and long, linear spikelets. It grows from fifteen inches to two feet high, with a perennial, creeping root, erect, round, smooth stem, leaves large, rather long, roughish on both sides, lower ones flat, upper ones generally- folded ; spikelets few, long and linear, as shown in Pig. 45, which represents the plant near the time of flowering. Pig. 46 shows a magnified spikelet of this grass. Plow- ers late in June. It grows naturally in very moist and muddy places, in ditches, on the margins of ponds and streams, and is very common, especially northward and westward. It is capable of cultivation as a perma- nent moist pasture grass, and its yield compares well with many of the other grass- es. Its seeds are greed- ily sought by birds, and in some parts of Ger- many are be used as a delicacy in soups and gruels. It has some- times been cultivated in France and other parts of Europe, along alluvial borders of streams and lakes, and is found to produce a sweet and Fig. 46. Floating Me„dow Grass Pig. 46. nutritioUS graSS. The. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Flint, Charles Louis, 1824-1889; Flint, Charles Louis, 1824-1889. Practical treatise on grasses and forage plants. Boston, J. E. Tilton
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