"Red Top," Pittsburg, Pa., says: " Will you please advise some of your readers as to the merits of Perennial Rye Grass (Lolium perenne) as a component part of a mixture for lawn grass. It is claimed to germinate quickly and soon produce a green sward, but is it not of too coarse a growth to make a lawn like a carpet, such as we all have in our minds, even if we do rarely find them a reality".

[Rye grass a quarter of a century ago was very popular round Philadelphia for lawn making. As our correspondent suggests, it makes a good lawn quicker than any other, is by no means a coarse grass when so used, and is very acceptable because it comes green in spring with its new shining growth before any others. But it seems to gradually disappear, the blue grass of the " Kentucky " name, which is one of the natural grasses of this region where it is known as Pennsylvania green grass, takes its place. There are numbers of lawns about here once of rye grass that are all of green grass now. We are not much in favor of lawn mixtures in sowing seeds, because the one the best adapted to the soil soon crowds out all others, but can see no objection to a little rye grass being sown with the blue grass, which, in most cases will be found the best for American lawns. - Ed. G. M].