A year or two ago Willet obtained a pamphlet on blue couch grass and is interested in it. The United States is an immense country for couch grass and he believes blue couch is the superior, if they could get it started. RBG Kew may know that Arizona furnishes all America, in place of Australia, with all their couch seed. It comes up with Alfalfa and they are cut and threshed and the seed separated. One of their Arizona growers, A.M. Hayden, believes he has the blue couch on his land. They are enclosing a few shoots that they would like Kew to identify to see if it is really blue couch. They are mailing their catalogue also [not attached]. Annotated by 'O.S.' [Otto Stapf] that this is apparently not the blue couch grass of Australia. The specimen cannot be named; it looks very dry but might perhaps be grown on. A year or two ago Willet obtained a pamphlet on blue couch grass and is interested in it. The United States is an immense country for couch grass and he believes blue couch is the superior, if they could get it started. RBG Kew may know that Arizona furnishes all America, in place of Australia, with all their couch seed. It comes up with Alfalfa and they are cut and threshed and the seed separated. One of their Arizona growers, A.M. Hayden, believes he has the blue couch on his land. They are enclosing a few shoots that they would like Kew to identify to see if it is really blue couch. They are mailing their catalogue also [not attached]. Annotated by 'O.S.' [Otto Stapf] that this is apparently not the blue couch grass of Australia. The specimen cannot be named; it looks very dry but might perhaps be grown on. Page 1 of 1.