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Show IDENTIFICATION AND USE OF BENT GRASS Bulletin Tells How to Cloar tip Confused Ideas of Plant. . Rhode Island Variety la Common In New England 8tatea and la Valuable Valu-able for Lawns, Golf Courses and Other Purposes. (Prepared by tho Unttotl States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) Information that will cnnble seedsmen seeds-men and farmers to clear up confusftf Idcns regarding tho Identification and uses of tho bcltf grasses commonly grown In tho United States Is given In Bulletin C02, "Tho Agricultural Species of Bent Grasses," recently published, by Hie United States department of agriculture. ag-riculture. Tho bulletin Is divided Into two pnrts. Tho first pnrt contains a discussion dis-cussion of red top, florin, PJioda Island bent, colonlnl bent, velvet or brown bent, and enrpet bent. Rhode Island bent, according to tho bulletin, Is a common grass In Now England nnd Is valunblo for lawns and golf courses. For making a fine turf It is excelled only by velvet nnd enrpet bent, which occur in tho trndo' only 'In mixed seed from Europe. Velvet bent, makes tho (longest, finest turf, enrpet bent the next best, Rhode Island bent n slightly coarser, turf, whllo that produced by red top and florin Is much coarser. J'art two of .tho bulletin gives a dls cusslon of tho distinguishing' characteristics charac-teristics of the seed of these grasses which occurs In commercial trade. The kinds of seed nro Illustrated, together with tho principal Impurities found with them. Misbranding In tho trado occurs chiefly In tho substitution of red-top seed for secd4 of the other granges, but n study of seed characteristics, character-istics, as given In tho bulletin, will enable en-able seedsmen 11 ml farmers to distinguish distin-guish red-top seed from that of tho finer grasses; moro deslrnhlo for growing grow-ing turf. |