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Title: Evidence of Mr. James Fletcher, entomologist and botanist, before the Select Standing Committee of the House of Commons on Agriculture and Colonization, Session of 1893 (microform)
Identifier: cihm_91951 (find matches)
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Fletcher, James, 1852-1908; Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and Colonization
Subjects: Grasses; Horn fly; Graminées; Mouche des cornes
Publisher: (Ottawa : s. n. )
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FARM AND QAEDEN. 11 .. about their houses. A farmer generally goes to town and buys 50 cents' worth of some lawn mixture, gives it to his wife or daughters, and says to thorn: " Attend to It as you like." Now, as a rule, this lawn is a nuisance to them. Unless a lawn is properly cr^'ed for, a farmer might just as well, or.better, do without it for a badly kept lawn is not an ornament to a housi'. To one who knows what a "•ood lawn is and that our wild June grass, which grows wild by every roadside, is the voi'v best variely tor a lawn, the (luestion naturally presents itself: Why should they spend 50 cents tor a thing that they can get far better for themselves along the sides of the roads at the end of June? Why, as a man is coming from church, he could pick enough seed to enable him to sow a splendid lawn. Careful experiments were tried last year to see which were the bost grasses for lawns, at Ottawa. We procured all the grasses advertised as lawn grasses, and several Of the mixtures for the purpose of testing them. Different grasses vary just as much in colour as thev do in appearance. A feature of much importance in a lawn is that it should be of a bri-dit and uniform colour. In order to demonstrate the unadvisability of havin.-- several varieties mixed together in a lawn, I chose some varieties which differed most in colour, and sowed the seed so as to form a grass .Mosaic, in the pattern of the Union I ^. J'"f' f^'ii'^f the St. (ieorge's Cross was sown Ilk W* "^'^ the Hard Fescue, which is a doo;» blue / (Iff Ji •£ . gi'cen. Across this was now sown 8t. Andrew's cross of the yellowish green Sheep's Fescue. Both of these have hair-iike leaves, and are very much in use on lawns. They are not very suitable, however, because in the hot weather they turn to a dull colour. Then there were left eight triangular ;»atches between the limbs of these crosses, an(' the country, but absolutely the best lawn grass nearly all over the world; it is certainly so in Groat Britain and the north of hliirope. It ., . ,. . ,„ '« indigenous to our country, and grows from the Arctic regions to Texas, so that any one who wants a good lawn can easily tret the best see<i for 81.25 or «1.50 a bushel. "^ It shoiiid he sown at the niltx.f three busiielH or more to liio acre, and with that • luantily there sJK.uld be put in two quarts of white clover seed. This will give about the best lawn mixture that can be made. When we go to the seedsmen and got ono of their lawn mixturos, we got ten, twelve or fourteen kindn of grasses ItioHO only Hwell the price, and area great disadvantage. A« soon as vou get rid of' all the varieties but June grass, you are going to have a good lawn, but not till tlien.
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