—AND GRASS.
It seems that the votaries of grass are enough to support, not only a magazine, but a great scientific organization. And, I suppose, grass is almost the most English thing in England. The latest Journal of the Board of Green-keeping Research bears really astonishing evidence of the cult of green or lawn- making. The Research station at St. Ives in Yorkshire was founded chiefly for the game of golf and the green in its more technical sense ; but it explores incidentally the secrets of pure science. It has made discoveries. What a feather it will be in its cap if it can make as popular as it should be the neat little word Ortho-dichlorobenzene 1 It seems to supply the long-sought substance which is death to the leather-jacket and life to the grass. Another word likely to become popular is stolon. Velvety lawns in uncongenial places have been formed, not by seeding or turfing, but by planting out stolons that have a creeping habit. * * * *
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