Timothy Grass

a valuable fodder grass. It is so called from Timothy Hanson, who carried the seed from Europe to Maryland about 1720. It seems to be native in New England, but it was probably introduced at an early date from Europe. In that section it was formerly called Herd's grass, from the name of a New Hampshire farmer who introduced its culture. In Snowbound Whittier speaks of shaking down "Herd's grass for the cows." It is a tall grass, affording excellent pasture; and forage as well, if cut early, before the stalks become too hard. It is called cat-tail, from the shape of its spikes, and Herd's grass. It is frequently sowed with red clover from a notion that a combined growth will be heavier than if the land were sowed to either plant alone. See Blue Grass