Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1885 — Grasses. [ARTICLE]

Grasses.

The variety of grasses is something wonderful. These plants outrank in importance all other plants combined, since they include all cereals en which mankind depends for bread. It is said there are over 6,000 kinds of grass, which is about one-sixth of all the flow-, ering plants that grow.