" Meadow," West Philadelphia, Pa., desires us to tell her "through the Monthly the best grass for a lawn." The best kind depends on many circumstances. If rather low ground and somewhat stiff soil the different species of Agrostis known as Fiorin, Red Top, Bent, and other common names are very good. Rye grass is excellent for limestone soils, though liable to be killed in very severe winters. Under the shade of trees the flat-stemmed blue grass, Poa compressa, is very good, and in ratherrolling ground the sheeps-fesque, Festuca ovina, is excellent. For general purposes there is nothing to equal Kentucky Blue grass. Avoid white clover and the ordinary mixtures, if you would have a perfect lawn.

If sown in the fall it may be well to sow Rye with it, provided the Rye be mown early in spring, and kept mown as if it were grass. The only object of sowing Rye is to keep the young and very small grass plants from being drawn out by the frost. The heavy leaves of the Rye fall down over the grass plants and keep them pressed firmly in the soft earth when the thaw comes. Coarse weeds must be drawn out by hand next summer.