| 362PERPETUAL FORAGE AND GRAZING GRASS.
Paspalum Ovatum.- Tr.
DESCRIPTION.- A perennial pasture grass, grow-
ing the year round, even during the dryest weather,
being unaffected by drouth. Heavy freezing kills the
top, but the roots send up fresh sprouts in a few days'
time. Once started it needs no further cultivation, repro-
ducing and spreading by roots under ground, suckers
and the seeds. Stalks falling down root at each joint.
Roots also by seeds, but the seed is not reliable and not
recommended. It will stand heavy freezing, once es-
established so the stock will not pull it up by the roots. Pro-
tested from stock, it makes fine hay, growing from three
to five feet high.
But its chief value is as a
Drouth-proof Grazing Grass.
It is more fully described in the Report of the Commis-
sioner of Agriculture for 1880, pages 375, 376.
Chickens, and fowls of all kinds, are very fond of the
young sprouts and will hunt for them in preference to
any other green food.
I have control of the only stock in Texas, and will ship
roots at any time and season.
PRICES.
By Mail, post paid, $1.00 per 100 roots. By Express,
50c. per 100 roots. No order for less than 25 roots by
mail or $2.00 worth by express, filled.
Express office, Galveston[.] Texas.
Send all orders to
CHAS. N. ELEY,
Smith Point, Chambers Co., Texas. | 362PERPETUAL FORAGE AND GRAZING GRASS.
Paspalum Ovatum.- Tr.
DESCRIPTION.- A perennial pasture grass, grow-
ing the year round, even during the dryest weather,
being unaffected by drouth. Heavy freezing kills the
top, but the roots send up fresh sprouts in a few days'
time. Once started it needs no further cultivation, repro-
ducing and spreading by roots under ground, suckers
and the seeds. Stalks falling down root at each joint.
Roots also by seeds, but the seed is not reliable and not
recommended. It will stand heavy freezing, once es-
established so the stock will not pull it up by the roots. Pro-
tested from stock, it makes fine hay, growing from three
to five feet high.
But its chief value is as a
Drouth-proof Grazing Grass.
It is more fully described in the Report of the Commis-
sioner of Agriculture for 1880, pages 375, 376.
Chickens, and fowls of all kinds, are very fond of the
young sprouts and will hunt for them in preference to
any other green food.
I have control of the only stock in Texas, and will ship
roots at any time and season.
PRICES.
By Mail, post paid, $1.00 per 100 roots. By Express,
50c. per 100 roots. No order for less than 25 roots by
mail or $2.00 worth by express, filled.
Express office, Galveston[.] Texas.
Send all orders to
CHAS. N. ELEY,
Smith Point, Chambers Co., Texas. |
