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Unsung Grass |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / NATURE WALK |
| Author: Clyde C. Berg |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1991 |
| Size: 985 Words, 5,625 Characters |
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It is, perhaps, a common plant, orchard grass, shy by the wayside, errant on a fairway, bent in the pasture under an unmindful hoof, mingled among neighbors in a hayfield. Growing as a weed in some locations, it responds to the nurturing of the husbandman in fields and pastures.
As poet Walt Whitman wrote: "I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars." Thus, orchard grass, or Dactylis glomerate, can lay claim, perhaps, to a speck of this galaxy.
Folded in the bud, its leaves mature into blades that may reach a meter in length yet be only as wide as a child's finger. When not flowering it is ankle- to knee-high to a man, but once spring sends the signal, o...
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...r side of the ocean?)
No less a truth teller than George Washington, who bested England's George III and then fathered the infant United States, championed orchard grass. It is, he said, "in my opinion the best mixture with clover; it blooms precisely at the same time, rises quick again after cutting, stands thick, yields well, and both cattle and horses are fond of it green or in hay."
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