KENTUCKY BLUE GRASS.
Mr Oswald Carr, of Napier, asks the fallowing question from the editor of the “Ansti Eliasian,’^ —“ I enclose j'ou a small sample of grass seed which I received from New York. It iscalled the Kentucky blue grass. Can you tell me its botanical name, and whi thcr it is an annual or perennial, root spreading or fibrous, and the nature of soil on which it thrives best ? The following is the' reply:—The grass commonly called as above, aqd "a favorite with the farmers iu some of thc'Eastern States of America is the Poa pratensis snbccernlea, or smooth-stalked meadow grass. It is pmnnial and root spreading, hut it is of more compact growth than the comiuoq, meadow grass, requiring also a soil containing more vegetable matter, and not liable'to drought. It is' therefore suitable to reclaimed bygs. ami to much of the forest land of North America. In a Cvingenial loculi y it affords a for quantity of early and nut ilious herbage. Ho many diiitrent ipicies are known on the prairies of Americe umUr tie caumoj application of ‘•hunch grasses” hat we cannot give the botanical tame of the one ici'ci re.i to. —lin.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 52, 30 December 1867, Page 3
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