PLANTING AND SEEDING SEASONS : Page 21

15th or 20th of September, thus not overlapping the autumn plantingseason to any extent. As one goes southward, the season again merelyshifts along, so that, in the Upper Austral Zone, it opens about Sep-tember 15th and closes about November 1st, while in the LowerAustral it is pushed along to October 15th. Here the practice ofseeding stops, except for the use of English rye as a green wintercarpet, and is superseded by the practice of "sprigging" or plantingpieces of Bermuda and St. Augustine grass. This grass planting iscommonly done in southern Florida in June, while farther north, andespecially in Alabama, it is done through the winter months so as totake advantage of the then abundant rains (See Page 59).