Poa compressa.

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1784.  This land lies open to the barrens, where there are many hundred acres without timber, and thick set with blue grass.—Advt., Maryland Journal, Aug. 17.

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1817.  White clover and the much esteemed blue grass (Poa compressa).—John Bradbury, ‘Travels,’ p. 308.

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1834.  The hardy blue grass, even thus early, afforded a rich sward beneath the boughs that were just putting forth their young leaves.—C. F. Hoffman, ‘A Winter in the Far West,’ ii. 150 (Lond., 1835).

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1835.  The area, which was once trodden hard by human feet, is now covered with a beautiful carpet of short, luxuriant blue grass—a production which ever springs up near the habitations of man, flourishes round his ruined mansion long after his departure, and clothes with verdure the grave in which his body reposes.—James Hall, ‘Tales of the Border,’ p. 214 (Phila.).

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1888.  The cattle, costing per head what, we whispered to each other, would set us up in a handsome income for life and buy a Blue-grass farm with blooded horses, etc., which was my husband’s ideal home.—Mrs. Custer, ‘Tenting on the Plains,’ p. 340.

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1909.  He manages to find time to work a farm down in the Blue Grass region of Kentucky.—N.Y. Evening Post, Jan. 21.

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