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For a fine turf similar to putting greens, use Chewing's or New Zealandred fescue, which is a grass having a dark green colour and which makesa solid, compact turf. It is particularly adapted to sowing on sandyloam soil but succeeds well on clay loam or even on clays. When seededalone one hundred pounds per acre should be used. It is the best lawngrass foi growing in the shade under American conditions. Anotherfine-leaved grass making a dense, velvety turf is creeping bent. It does best where the summers are cool and moist; that is, in the northeasternstates and on the northwest coast. When the soil is limy, othergrasses, such as blue grass and white clover, tend to crowd out creepingbent. It should be sown alone except that combined with red fescueit will be satisfactory for a few years, after which the two grasses tendto separate and make circular mats. |
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